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Smith & Nephew agreed to acquire Brainlab's orthopedic joint reconstruction business.

Dallas-based Guardian Pharmacy Services — the manufacturer of a compounded solution at the center of 60 lawsuits — reached a settlement with the federal government, according to a press release from the Department of Justice.

HealthCare Appraisers' 2018 ASC Valuation Survey provided insight into the ASC market and surgery center characteristics.

Research from the American Medical Association, Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic and Stanford (Calif.) University School of Medicine found that burnout among U.S. physicians improved between 2014 and 2017, but the rate of burnout remains high.

Arizona's Medicaid program is investigating after the program accidentally sent personal health information to the wrong home addresses, according to azcentral, part of the USA Today network.

Most ASCs are physician-owned, according to the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association's 2017 Salary & Benefits Survey.

SimplifyASC surpassed the midpoint in its $6 million Series A fundraising with $2.75 million from Jumpstart Capital, according to Venture Nashville Connections.

Columbia Surgical Specialists of Spokane (Wash.) reported a ransomware attack affecting 400,000 patients to the HHS' Office for Civil Rights Breach portal Feb. 18.

Increasing antimicrobial stewardship and infection prevention resources may improve patient safety in ASCs and hospital outpatient departments, according to research published in Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control.

WalletHub released its Happiest Cities in America list, presenting the happiest and unhappiest cities across the U.S.