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Surgical residency program directors are not always aware of local controlled substance prescribing policies, according to an article in the Journal of Surgical Research.

A majority of healthcare organizations said they'll invest in care coordinators in the near future, a reflection of their interest in making value-based programs more effective, according to HealthLeaders Media's 2018 Annual Industry Outlook: Exploring Investments and ROI.

Here are 21 statistics on ASC case volume per year, according to statistics from VMG Health's Multi-Specialty ASC Intellimarker 2017.

Here are 21 statistics on hourly salaries and wages for nurse, tech and administrative staff at ASCs in each U.S. region. Data is from the VMG Health Multi-Specialty ASC Intellimarker 2017.

The Collaborative for Healing and Renewal in Medicine offered practices a series of steps to address physician burnout.

Researchers observed 80 interns at U.S. internal medicine residency programs and randomly assigned them to either standard duty-hour policies of the 2011 Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education or flexible policies that didn't specify limits on shift length or mandate…

Cigna reached its goal of reducing opioid use among members by 25 percent, more than one year before it expected to hit that target, Forbes reports.

Henderson (Nev.) Hospital installed the Indigo-Clean continuous environment disinfecting operating room light fixtures in its outpatient surgery center.

Fair Health analyzed claim line trends in five service settings, including ASCs, using a national database of billions of privately insured healthcare claims.

A study published in JAMA estimated the processing time and billing and insurance-related costs for patient encounters in five settings.