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A panel of the West Virginia House of Representatives passed a version of a controversial bill, which removed a clause that would allow optometrists to perform three types of laser surgery, according to a report in The Register-Herald.

Construction has been completed on the 50,000-square-foot MALO Clinic in Rutherford, N.J., which includes medical offices, an ASC and an oral rehabilitation center , according to a report by Sweetwater Construction Corp., the company that built the facility.

After more than 10 years of outstanding service, President Kathy Bryant will be leaving the ASC Association and the Ambulatory Surgery Foundation, according to a release from ASC Association chair Alsie Sydness-Fitzgerald, CASC.

Louisville (Ky.) Surgery Center is a multi-specialty surgery center with seven physicians that partnered with ASD Management at the end of 2008. Here's how it achieved strong results in 2009, including increasing profits by 31 percent, increasing volume by 27…

Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty and state legislators have reached an agreement to reduce funds for a state-funded program for low-income adults and transfer it to hospitals serving these patients, according to a report by the Minnesota Daily.

The first multispecialty ASC in Muskegon, Mich., was recently fully certified and is gradually signing up private insurance networks, according to the Muskegon News.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have issued a notice advising physicians and healthcare providers who are not enrolled in Medicare or who have not updated their Medicare information since Nov. 2003 to complete an initial enrollment application, according…

Plastic surgery procedures dropped 2 percent in 2009, at 9.99 million compared with 10.26 million in 2008, according to statistics from The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery.

A report from the Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General found that recovery audit contractors are not sufficiently trained to accurately report potential fraud to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

St. Mary Medical Center in Hobart, Ind., will soon open a new outpatient surgery center, St. Mary Medical Center Outpatient Surgery at Lake Park, according to a news release by the hospital.