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While hospitals see more high-severity closed claims, most ASC-related claims are low or medium in severity, according to Anesthesiology News.

When purchasing a minority interest in a multispecialty facility, 50 percent of companies see prevailing valuation multiples of 4 times to 4.9 times EBITDA, according to HealthCare Appraisers' 2018 ASC Valuation Survey.

In the 29 healthcare data breaches logged in May, 838,587 healthcare records were exposed or stolen, HIPAA Journal reports. One ASC landed among the top 10 largest breaches for the month.

Commercial payers account for the greatest share of payer mix in the South, according to VMG Health's 2018 Multi-Specialty ASC Benchmarking Study.

The biggest oversight made during due diligence is a mismatch in work cultures, according to a West Monroe Partners and Mergermarket report.

Adopting price transparency for ambulatory surgical center services can increase surgical volume, revenue and patient satisfaction, according to a study in The American Surgeon.

U.S. state and local governments devoted 30.7 percent of their budgets to healthcare and social services in 2015, up from 27.6 percent in 2005, Market Watch reports.

Surgeons and physicians can help alleviate the risk of patients becoming addicted to opioids by improving coordination about the prescription of opioids after surgery, University of Michigan researchers found.

The average time it takes for patients to schedule a new appointment with physicians has increased 30 percent since 2014, according to a 2017 Merritt Hawkins survey.

Hackers breached protected health information most often through physical records in the first quarter of 2018, HIPAA Journal reports.