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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.

Amid a possible 20,000-physician shortage by 2020, telehealth companies are hoping to the fill the physician void, CNBC reports.

Nearly 60 percent of physicians have made unsuccessful investments, according to Medscape's Physician Wealth and Debt Report 2018.

Patients treated in an ASC are less likely to be admitted to a hospital or visit an emergency room in a short period after outpatient surgery, according to an independent study published in the Journal of Health Economics.

Here are 12 statistics on how many ASCs organizations have under ownership and management from HealthCare Appraisers' 2018 ASC Valuation Survey.