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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offers a free, downloadable checklist to help improve compliance to safe injection practices.

Consumers Union urged House and Senate leaders today to adopt a number of provisions from the Senate's FDA User Fee Act that are designed to better protect patients from potentially dangerous medical devices than the version passed by the House.

The introduction of mandatory quality reporting for ambulatory surgery centers is expected to cause "major changes in the ASC marketplace," according to a HealthLeaders Media report.

In 2011, national healthcare expenditures only grew 3.9 percent due to the continued economic slog, which is similar to 2010, and the total 2011 national healthcare expenditure figure was $2.7 trillion compared with $2.59 trillion in 2010, according to CMS…

Here are 11 ambulatory surgery centers where physicians perform total joint replacements.

About Surgical Care AffiliatesSurgical Care Affiliates was created in 2007 and since then has become a leader in outpatient surgery. Headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, SCA operates a national network of ambulatory surgery centers and surgical hospitals in 32 states. We…

Cathy Rudisill, RN, is a senior vice president of operations with Ambulatory Surgical Centers of America, a physician-owned ASC development and management company in Hanover, Mass.

Jeffrey Simmons is the chief development officer for Regent Surgical Health, an ASC management and development company in Westchester, Ill. He is responsible for overseeing all acquisition and development efforts for the company.

William Comer, senior vice president of operations for Nueterra Healthcare's hospital division, is in the running to be the next CEO of Bartlett Regional Hospital in Juneau, Alaska.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts will require physicians to gain permission from the insurer before writing new prescriptions for 30 days' worth of painkillers for patients, according to a Washington Post report.