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The national average pay for surgical technologists is $24.77 per hour or $51,510 per year, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' occupational employment statistics survey released March 31.

The national average pay for physician assistants is $55.81 per hour or $116,080 per year, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' occupational employment statistics survey released March 31.

The average hourly pay for nurses in the U.S. is $38.74 for registered nurses and $55.05 for nurse practitioners, according to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data — but that pay gap varies widely across the country.

As a growing number of procedures migrate out of the hospital to the outpatient environment and costs continue to rise across the healthcare industry, ASC administrators are calling on CMS to pay ambulatory surgery centers the same as hospital outpatient…

This is the 2021 ranking. Click here to see the 2022 edition. The average hourly pay for nurses in the U.S. is $38.74 for registered nurses and $55.05 for nurse practitioners, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' occupational…

Recruiting and retaining great nursing staff are challenges for many surgery centers and hospitals across the U.S.

Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare on Nov. 16 announced a private placement offering and agreed to sell $1.45 billion in aggregate principal amount of senior secured first lien notes due on Jan. 15, 2030, at an interest rate of 4.375 percent per…

One Alabama ASC has performed vastly more Medicare procedures than any other ASC in 2021, and the top 35 have performed more than 1 million such cases combined. Here are the top 35 ASCs ranked by number of Medicare procedures…

November/December 2021 Issue of Becker’s ASC Review ON THE COVER First-ever ranking of all 50 states by ASC per capita The number of ASCs is growing across the U.S. as patients and payers demand more outpatient surgery, and the national…

CMS' outpatient payment final rule for 2022 contained positives for ASCs, including its plan to implement a transparent process to add procedures to the ASC-payable list. However, much of the provisions — particularly the decision to remove 255 procedures from…