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Most ASCs don't require staff and physicians to receive the COVID-19 vaccine despite mounting pressure from healthcare organizations.

Forty-six percent of physicians reported their financial state as worse in 2020 than 2019, Medical Economics reported in its 92nd physician report.

Becker's has reported on several important rankings so far this year detailing places in the U.S. recognized for success or shortcomings in multiple categories.

Family medicine and psychiatry are two medical specialties highly sought in the U.S., while neurology has only just risen to the top of the list.

The Northeast Georgia Health System is seeking the state's approval to build a medical plaza in Braselton with a 25,000-square-foot ASC, according to The Gainesville Times.

Hospitals employed 49.3 percent of physicians by January 2021, up 5 percent from January 2019. 

The most common nonmedical side gig for physicians is real estate, according to a July 14 report in Medscape.

Here's the number of ASCs, affiliated positions and states with centers for seven of the largest ASC chains:

Merritt Hawkins, a national physician recruitment and healthcare consulting firm, provided the most recruited medical specialties in its "2020 Review of Physician and Advanced Practitioner Recruiting Incentives and the Impact of COVID-19."

Twenty-one percent of physicians were furloughed or experienced a pay cut during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an April 2020 survey.