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From the latest on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to recent ambulatory surgery center events, here are seven news updates for ASC leaders to know for Jan. 23, 2014.

According to a report from The New York Times, a Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act provision stopping employers from providing better health benefits to "highly compensated individuals" won't be enforced this year.

Denver-based Physician Health Partners, a management services organization owned and operated by primary care physicians, has partnered with Cigna for a collaborative accountable care initiative, the payer's version of an accountable care organization.  

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology published guidelines drafted by the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology in America that modify healthcare personnel attire to help reduce the potential for HAI transmission.  

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