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Here are 10 benchmarking statistics on net revenue for pain management cases in the ASC setting, according to data from VMG Health's Multi-Specialty ASC Intellimarker 2010.

Amerinet has announced a new agreement with OEC Medical Systems, a GE Healthcare business, for the OEC 9900 Elite Digital C-Arm, according to a news release.

Wolters Kluwer Health has announced the Center for Ambulatory Surgery in West Seneca, N.Y., has selected its ProVation MD software for gastroenterology procedure documentation and coding, according to a news release.

Yousuf Sayeed, MD, is a pain management physician with The Spine Center at DuPage Medical Group and Edward Hospital, both in Naperville, Ill.

Limited English proficiency patients who received interpretation at hospital admission and/or discharge had shorter lengths of stay than LEP patients who did not receive interpretation, according to a study in Journal of General Internal Medicine.

Patients with healthcare-associated infections have a higher risk of being readmitted to a hospital after discharge compared with patients without an infection, according to a study in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.

Here are 10 spine practices using electronic systems. For comments or updates, contact Laura at lmiller@beckershealthcare.com.

AxioMed Spine has received the CE Mark approval for its Freedom Cervical Disc, an elastomeric total spinal disc replacement device.

The University of Maryland at Baltimore will soon begin revamping the way it teaches pain management to future physicians, according to a Baltimore Sun report.

SPR Therapeutics will soon release a new electrical stimulation device to treat shoulder pain, according to a Cleveland.com report. The device, called Smartpatch, will enter its third and final clinical trial within the next six months before applying for FDA…