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Nearly half of healthcare provider organizations are highly interested in pursuing a physician practice through mergers, acquisitions and partnerships within the next year, according to a HealthLeaders Media  Intelligence Report. 

ASCs in the Pacific region pay nurses the highest median hourly wages, according to VMG Health's 2018 Multi-Specialty ASC Benchmarking Study. 

SPH Analytics named Kailua, Hawaii-based Windward Surgery Center a 2017 National APEX Quality Award winner for outstanding patient satisfaction and overall quality of care. 

The Joint Commission is revising the requirements in National Patient Safety Goal 03.05.01, Reducing Harm from Anticoagulant Therapy.

Of all recent or potential regulatory issues, the move from fee-for-service to bundled or value-based payments has the biggest impact on dealmaking, according to a West Monroe and Mergermarket report.

Here are 21 statistics on general and administrative operating expenses for ASCs based on data from the VMG Health 2018 Multi-Specialty ASC Benchmarking Study.

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.