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HealthCare Appraisers released their 2018 ASC Valuation Survey which offers insights into ASC valuation and ownership trends.

HealthCare Appraisers released their 2018 ASC Valuation Survey which offers insights into ASC valuation and ownership trends.

Almost three-quarters — 71 percent — of reusable endoscopes deemed ready for use on patients in three hospitals had microbial growth, a study in the American Journal of Infection Control found.

SPH Analytics named Grand Rapids, Minn.-based Lakewood Surgery Center a 2017 National APEX Quality Award winner for outstanding patient satisfaction and overall quality of care. 

Surgery centers with more than two specialties accounted for 30 percent of ASCs billing Medicare in 2016, and single-specialty gastroenterology centers accounted for 22 percent, according to The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission's March 2018 report to Congress. 

Nicholas B. Frisch, MD, MBA, shared his thoughts on the importance of comprehensive screening and how physicians can implement it with Becker's ASC Review.

Electronic form and workflow solution provider FormFast will implement its solution in the ambulatory facilities of Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.-based War Memorial Hospital.

SPH Analytics awarded Biloxi, Miss.-based Gulf Coast Outpatient Surgery Center the 2017 APEX Quality Award for outstanding patient satisfaction and overall quality of care.

When selling minority interests in an ASC to new physician investors, it typically takes between three and six months to identify the buyer and consummate the sale, according to HealthCare Appraisers' 2017 ASC Valuation Survey.

SPH Analytics honored 108 healthcare facilities with the 2017 APEX Quality Award for outstanding patient satisfaction and overall quality of care, and 84 recipients were ASCs.