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Avera McKennan Hospital & University Health Center in Sioux Falls, S.D., has announced the opening of the Avera Surgery Center.

The healthcare reform law is supposed to reduce emergency department overcrowding in 2014, when 32 million more people will be covered by health insurance, but the some experts think ED usage could actually grow, according to a report by the…

Massachusetts's healthcare reform law, now in a "train wreck," shows the fatal flaws of the federal healthcare reform law because the two are basically the same legislation, according to an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal.

President Obama said he intends to use the current Congressional recess to appoint Donald Berwick, MD, as administrator of CMS without confirmation by the Senate, according to a report by Forbes.

A whistleblower lawsuit against WellCare Health Plans filed four years ago in Florida by a financial analyst at the insurance company has been unsealed by a U.S. District Court judge after he learned the U.S. Attorney's Office in Tampa was…

The following question pertains to the recent news: "CMS Waives Separate Waiting Room Requirement for ASCs Meeting New Criteria." The answer was provided by Dawn Q. McLane, RN, MSA, CASC, CNOR, chief development officer of Nikitis Resource Group, an ASC…

We caught up with Simeon Schwartz, MD, president of WESTMED Ambulatory Surgery Center in Rye, N.Y., on the day the ASC hosted its first procedure. The $4.5 million center, in Westchester County, north of New York City, is owned by…

Joseph Banno, MD, founder of the successful Peoria (Ill.) Day Surgery Center and past ASC chairman, is committed to providing quality healthcare all over the world. He helped pioneer the development of the world's first mobile ASC, a self-contained surgery…

Prairie Surgery Center, an eye surgery center in Springfield, Ill., is set to open in August, according to The State Journal-Register.

The Ambulatory Surgery Center Advocacy Committee has named Morgan Hanson as manager of grassroots advocacy.