Paramount Surgery Center of Mesa (Ariz.) has been acquired by a joint venture between not-for-profit Scottsdale (Ariz.) Healthcare and Sovereign Healthcare, a privately held ASC management company based in Orange County, Calif., according to a news release.
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ASC operating rooms can be dangerous breeding grounds for fire outbreaks, especially during head and neck surgeries when three components — an ignition source such as a cautery, fuel such as alcohol-based solutions and oxygen — are combined, says Jo…
A new study conducted by researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and published in the Archives of Internal Medicine revealed that one percent of all patients undergoing outpatient endoscopic procedures suffer serious enough complications to require admission…
The Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority has approved up to $17 million in bonds for construction of a new ASC in Fairbanks, according to a report from the Anchorage Daily News and documentation from the AIDEA.
A surgery center is part of a new hospital under development in Fillmore County, Neb., according to a report by KLKN-TV in Lincoln, Neb.
Construction has begun on a new 8,500-square-foot medical complex in Ocala, Fla., which includes an ASC, according to the Florida Read Estate Journal.
Here are four factors influencing ASC administrator salaries in 2010, according to various sources.
Here is a list of 16 states that have opted out of the federal requirement for physician supervision of anesthesia provision, in chronological order.
A podiatrist from London, Ky., has been indicted for alleged Medicaid fraud following a criminal investigation by the Kentucky Attorney General's Medicaid Fraud and Abuse Control Unit into his billing practices, according to a news release by Kentucky Attorney General…
The New York State Office of the Medicaid Inspector General has released the 2009 annual report detailing information about audits, investigations and initiatives related to Medicaid fraud and abuse that occurred in 2009, according to Medicaid Inspector General James G.…