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In our ongoing series, Becker's ASC Review spoke with American Association for Accreditation of Ambulatory Surgery Facilities' Associate Director of Accreditation Jeanne Henry about the organization's commonly cited deficiency related to annual biomedical inspections.

Of the four U.S. cities on Deutsche Bank's quality of life index, Boston has the highest quality of life ranking at No. 11 and New York City has the lowest at No. 31, Business Insider reports.

Eight metro areas with booming populations had recent shortages of at least 500 nurses and saw consistent scarcities for the last three years, according to LinkedIn data. 

ASCs across the country are benchmarking their surgical cases to maximize the value of their centers. In every region, except the Northeast, the average ASC has four operating rooms and two procedure rooms; the average ASC in the Northeast has…

Psychiatrists, plastic surgeons and physiatrists saw the greatest increases in compensation this year, according to Medscape's Compensation Report 2018. 

A bill that could reverse reimbursement cuts for post-operative injections in ASCs advanced to the House of Representatives, News Channel 21 reports.

Most ASCs are urban and for-profit, according to a Medicare Payment Advisory Commission analysis of 2017 CMS data.

Forty-one healthcare data breaches were reported to HHS' Office for Civil Rights in April, marking the third consecutive month the number of records exposed by healthcare data breaches increased, HIPAA Journal reports.

Fifty percent of organizations see a 2 percent to 2.9 percent annual change in the ASC market for commercial payer rates, according to HealthCare Appraisers' 2018 ASC Valuation Survey. 

Most ophthalmologists consider themselves "savers," but 9 percent of physicians in the specialty reported living above their means, according to Medscape's 2018 Physician Wealth & Debt Report.