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Healthgrades named Rapid City, S.D.-based Same Day Surgery Center among its 2018 Outstanding Patient Experience Award winners.

Henry Schein moved five spots in the Fortune 500 rankings, going from No. 243 in 2017 to No. 238 in 2018.

Forty-three percent of physicians who save more than $2,000 per month in a tax-deferred account are in the 50 year to 64 year age range, according to Medscape's Physician Wealth and Debt Report 2018.

As most know, one hallmark characteristic of the Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC) environment is high reliability, meaning there is an expectation of consistently good postoperative outcomes, especially when compared to alternative treatment settings. ASCs, and other high reliability systems have…

Among all U.S. regions, median revenue per case for ophthalmology was highest in the South, according to VMG Health's 2018 Multi-Specialty ASC Benchmarking Study. 

The volume of ASC services per fee-for-service beneficiary decreased in 2016, according to a Medicare Payment Advisory Commission analysis of physician/supplier standard analytic files.

A study, published in JAMA Internal Medicine, claims physicians who accepted free meals and other perks from opioid-manufacturing drug companies were more likely to prescribe opioids to their patients, Medscape reports.

Physicians performed nearly 113 million routine venipunctures in 2016, making that the most popular outpatient procedure that year, according to Definitive Healthcare data from Medicare claims.

Thirty-one percent of women have a net worth of $1 million or more, compared to 47 percent of men, according to Medscape's Physician Wealth and Debt Report 2018.

Health systems must make point of service compliance a top concern, according to Spend Matters Lead Analyst and Editor Tom Finn.