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A 69-count indictment charged 12 individuals with operating a "pill mill" in Virginia and West Virginia.

Norovirus is going around the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, and officials are warning athletes to fist-bump each other instead of shaking hands in order to prevent further spread, according to Yahoo Sports.

The American Association for Accreditation of Ambulatory Surgery Facilities and Nebula Data Intel are aiming to transform the ASC industry through a new data initiative that will collect clinical and operational data to provide outpatient surgical centers an all-encompassing look…

A survey of 130 directors of programs and institutions accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education revealed surgical training programs in the U.S. largely lack ergonomics education, Reuters Health reported. Here are six statistics from the survey results,…

Health expenditure is projected to capture an increasing share of the U.S. economy, climbing to 19.7 percent of GDP by 2026, according to a report by the CMS Office of the Actuary. Here are seven insights:

Here are five statistics on management fees at ASCs, according to responses from HealthCare Appraisers' 2017 ASC Valuation Survey. 

Here are 42 statistics on payer mix for ASCs by region, based on data from VMG Health's Multi-Specialty ASC Intellimarker Study 2017.

Here are seven statistics on ASC expenditure on taxes and benefits per OR, based on data from VMG Health's Multi-Specialty ASC Intellimarker Study 2017. Dollar amounts are in thousands.

A Senate report released on Feb. 12 by U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill, D–Mo., claims that five drug manufacturers paid nearly $9 million to 14 outside groups working on chronic pain and other opioid-related issues between 2012 and 2017.

The flu has come to Maine, and the emergency department at the Maine Medical Center in Portland is using outpatient surgery beds to handle the inpatient overload, the Bangor Daily News reports.