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Here's how Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare, Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare and Nashville-based Surgery Partners' shares have fluctuated over the last five days.

A low-residue diet is a viable alternative to clear-liquid diet preparation, and gastroenterologists should be paying more attention to it, said David Johnson, MD, chief of gastroenterology at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk.

Marysville, Ill.-based Memorial Health opened its $50 million Memorial 2020 project, which developed a new inpatient and outpatient facility, the Urbana Daily Citizen reports.

CMS released the 2021 Proposed Medicare Physician Fee Schedule in August, which would reduce relative value unit conversion factor from $36.09 to $32.26.

Healthgrades released its Healthgrades Specialty Excellence Awards and Best Hospitals for Specialty Care report Oct. 20, recognizing several facilities for top-line care.

Compensation for physicians early in their careers varies by setting, with physicians under the age of 40 reporting the highest pay in office-based single-specialty practices, according to the Medscape Young Physician Compensation Report 2020.

Here are 10 updates on ASC companies and industry-relevant companies to note:

From creating a business plan to launching a website, The Inscriber Magazine on Oct. 16 shared six guidelines for physicians dreaming of opening and running their own healthcare practices.

Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiary, Ethicon, will pay $5.5 million to settle allegations that their marketing of transvaginal surgical mesh devices violated Oregon's consumer protection laws, Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum announced Oct. 16.

Terri Link, BSN, an ambulatory education specialist with the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses, provided a step-by-step guide to infection prevention in ASCs during the 2020 AORN Virtual Global Surgical Conference, according to OR Management News.