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From advocacy updates to center openings, here are seven news updates for ambulatory surgery center leaders to know for Feb. 27, 2014.

Here are five recent ambulatory surgery center administrative and company leadership changes.

Healthcare's traditional fee-for-service payment system can create "large and often insurmountable barriers" to changes in patient care, such as avoiding unnecessary tests or providing treatment at earlier and lower-cost stages of disease.

CMS has released updated guidance on "probe and educate" audits related to the two-midnight rule.

The global sports medicine devices market is expected to reach $8.3 billion by 2019, according to a report released by Transparency Market Research.

The Upper Midwest Consolidated Services Center, a supply network associated with Edina, Minn.-based VHA Upper Midwest Region, has selected Mundelein, Ill.-based Medline to be the sole provider of custom procedure trays for its 43 member hospitals.

Spaces for Becker's Hospital Review 5th Annual Meeting are filling up quickly.  Register today.

Jocelyn Gaddie is vice president of business development at in2itive Business Solutions.  

In AmSurg's first 2014 charity event, employees supported Memphis, Tenn.-based St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, raising more than $600 dollars in total.

Southern Eye Center in Hattiesburg, Miss. held its annual Gift of Sight Day Feb. 15, 2014.