Southeastern Regional Medical Center in Lumberton, N.C., has announced it has filed a certificate of need application with the state to build a $30 million ambulatory surgery center in Lumberton.
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Scott Leggett is CEO of Surgery One, which operates ambulatory surgery centers in the San Diego area.
Few providers participated in CMS' first National Version 5010 Testing Day, held June 15, according to results released by the agency last week.
Michael Romansky is Washington counsel for the Outpatient Ophthalmic Surgery Society.
Urologist Clay Lyddane, MD, PhD, has joined the urology department at Via Christi Clinic in Murdock, Kan., according to a KAKE report.
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A Connecticut university is still waiting for approval from state officials to start offering the state's first anesthesiology assistant masters degree program — almost a year after the program was first requested, according to a Connecticut Mirror report.