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Though the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Medicare and CHIP Reauthorization Act, the U.S. Senate did not vote on the legislation before leaving for recess. The American Medical Association is urging the Senate to take immediate action on the…

Here are seven news updates for ambulatory surgery center leaders to know for March 26, 2015.



Implementation of a checklist-based quality improvement intervention did not affect rates of adverse surgical outcomes among patients undergoing general surgery, according to a study published in JAMA Surgery.

The Z23 Outpatient Knee Program allows surgeons to provide total knee replacement using the Zimmer Persona Knee System in an outpatient setting, based on a protocol designed by Michael Kolczun II, MD.

Here are 10 pain management physicians who were in the news over the past month.

Women account for more than three-quarters, 78 percent, of the healthcare workforce, but new data from a Rock Health report and JAMA study show that the field is still very much subject to the gender gap, according to a Fortune…

Here are 15 statistics on physician wait times by specialty, state and city, according to Vitals' Sixth Annual Wait Time Report.

The House of Representatives will soon vote on a new sustainable growth rate bill, which could cost $500 billion by 2035, according to a Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget blog post.

New Jersey Eye Center celebrated 37 years of outpatient cataract surgery on Tuesday, and was founded in 1972 by Joseph Dello Russo, MD, who was among the first doctors in the Northeast to perform cataract surgery in a fully equipped…

A multi-modal intervention program helped increase hand hygiene compliance, according to a study published in the Journal of Emergency Nursing.