Leadership

In-N-Out Burger, a 70-year-old company that Money Magazine named America's best fast food chain in 2018, has a business model ASCs can learn from, according to Global 1 Co-Principal and Convergent SameDay Orthopedic Strategies Managing Director Scott Leggett.

Shelly Harvill, a cybersecurity governance and compliance consultant at Agio, advises investors evaluating ASCs to routinely review the organization's security program and whether it's had any breach activity.

California Assemblymember Jim Wood, DDS, D-Santa Rosa, introduced a bill that would grant nurse practitioners authority to practice to the full extent of their training in California, the Ukiah Daily Journal reports.

Brach Eichler Managing Member and Health Law Chair John Fanburg drew on his experience counseling ASCs to share three key tips for the year ahead.

Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare named Greg Lowe president of its Asheville, N.C.-based division, the Citizen-Times reports.

Bariatric surgeon Bobby Bhasker-Rao, MD, of Los Angeles-based miVIP Surgery Centers, used Intuitive Surgical's SureForm 60 Stapler in an outpatient setting.

The Toledo (Ohio) Clinic, an outpatient surgery center, introduced high school students to robotic surgery technology to foster interest in healthcare careers, CBS affiliate WTOL11 reported.

Medford-based Pain Specialists of Southern Oregon's new ASC brought physiatrist David Harris, DO, onboard, according to Marketing Director Rick Coimbra.

Orthopedic and spine practices can't rely on referrals from primary care specialists as much as they did 15 years ago, as 70 percent of patients today begin their "medical journeys" online, according to Daniel Goldberg of Gold Medical Marketing.

CBRE sold Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Raintree Office Center to Investment Management for $16.38 million, AZ Big Media reports.