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Here are the top ten states with the most non-federal, short-term, acute care hospitals, according to the American Hospital Directory  (with number of hospitals in parentheses).

NovaMed announced its second quarter results, with highlights including significant growth in income from continuing operations, increases in operating income and total net revenue, and same-facility growth.

A federal trial court has reversed a $33 million dollar judgment awarded to a cardiologist after the court determined that the defendants should have been entitled to immunity under the Health Care Quality Improvement Act (HCQIA).

Here is expert insight into just four issues ASCs should know about — under-arrangement transactions; leasing equipment from physician-investors; non-productive partners; and  bariatrics. Look to the Sept./Oct. issue of Becker's ASC Reivew for 41 more important issues.  

The McShane Companies recently announced it has completed over 1 million square feet of medical office buildings and ASC projects.

Health Net will pay $255 million to settle three class-action suits ? Wachtel v. Health Net, McCoy v. Health Net and Scharfman v. Health Net ? against it and regional subsidiaries. The allegations it underpaid out-of-network claims extend back to…

Q: What do you do to decrease high surgical cancellation rates? How do you approach the physician? The patient?  

Surgeons are the least satisfied of all specialty physicians, "which is troubling because they are high revenue producers," according to a new Press Ganey Associates report.

Of the 14 surgical specialties listed in Press Ganey's Hospital Check-Up Report 2008: Physician Perspectives on American Hospitals, 12 reported satisfaction levels below the mean satisfaction score, and four of the five least-satisfied specialties were surgical. Oral surgery was the…

According to Press Ganey's Hospital Check-Up Report 2008: Physician Perspectives on American Hospitals, physicians employed by their hospitals/facilities (20 percent of those surveyed) reported higher overall satisfaction (75.2 satisfaction score) compared with those who are not (72.4 satisfaction score). In…