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The Department of Justice will be joining a lawsuit against Mayo Clinic, based in Rochester, Minn., which has been accused of submitting fraudulent claims to Medicare and Medicaid for pathology tests that were never performed, according to a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review…

An unlicensed nurse from Marlborough, Mass., has pleaded guilty to her role in a $4.6 million Medicaid fraud scheme that operated out of California, according to a MetroWest Daily News report.

Outpatient surgery has increased to 53 million procedures a year in the United States over the last few decades, outnumbering inpatient surgeries by 7 million in 2006, according to a St. Petersburg Times report.

The Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission held its first public meeting on Friday, according to an AHA News Now report.

The CTQ Apex Quality Award is given to healthcare facilities, including ASCs and endoscopy centers, that demonstrate high levels of patient satisfaction. In order to qualify for the award, a facility must fall within the top 10 percent of its…

The ASC Association has named William Prentice, currently senior vice president for government and public affairs at the American Dental Association, as its new executive director.

An investigation has been launched over a second unnamed Maryland hospital suspected of unnecessarily using heart stents to treat cardiac patients, according to a Baltimore Sun report.

The Office of the Inspector General has released a report that examines whether the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reports all of its adverse actions to the Healthcare Integrity Protection Data Bank, as required, according to an OIG report.

Here are 10 statistics about patient visits to hospital outpatient departments in 2007, according to the most recent data set from the CDC's National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey.

Here are 10 stories about pain management in ASCs.