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Here are 21 statistics on net accounts receivable and days outstanding in A/R based on statistics from VMG Health's Multi-Specialty ASC Intellimarker 2017.

The DEA now allows nurse practitioners and physician assistants to prescribe and dispense FDA-approved opioid addiction medications for opioid use disorders, Medscape reports.

The global implantable medical devices market is expected to grow with a compound annual growth rate of 7.45 percent between 2016 and 2023, Occams Business Research and Consulting reports.

Unnecessary medical care is widespread and drives up the cost of care. Just a handful of healthcare services account for millions of dollars of waste in Washington state, according to a report by the Washington Health Alliance.

Nearly 80 percent of millennial nurses and 57 percent of Generation X nurses plan to pursue higher education to boost their salaries and advance their careers, according to a 2017 Nurse.com audience survey. Tuition reimbursement can be a major job…

The Board of Ambulatory Surgery Certification recently launched its new ASC credential, Certified Ambulatory Infection Preventionist™ (CAIP™). Here are seven things to know about CAIP.

Job burnout reduces hand washing compliance among nurses, according to a study in the Journal of Patient Safety.

Patient, provider and practice characteristics are associated with inappropriate antibiotic prescriptions in ambulatory practices, according to a study in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.

Antibiotic prophylaxis with a single preoperative dose of intravenous cefazolin does not reduce the risk of surgical site infection after the removal of orthopedic implants used to treat fractures below the knee, a study in JAMA found.

A study, published in The Journal of Arthroplasty, examined whether surgical approach affected total hip arthroplasty outcomes.