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Here are seven things for ambulatory surgery center leaders to know for Thursday, April 25, 2013.

Former Oregon Ambulatory Surgery Center Association President Kecia Norling has been appointed to the ASCA national board.

Here are five recent healthcare-related policy trends potentially impacting spine surgeons.

Michael Perry, MD, medical director of Laser Spine Institute, and a team of researchers have published a study in the Journal of Orthopaedics on the outcomes of lumbar laminotomy and foraminotomy in lumbar spinal stenosis patients.

Data presented at the Society of Interventional Radiology's 38th Annual Scientific Meeting in New Orleans, April 13-18, 2013, showed that using tiny balls of ice, a minimally invasive radiology treatment called cryoneurolysis, helps provide relief from chronic pain caused by…

International Osteoporosis Foundation announced that Harry Genant, MD, professor emeritus of the University of California San Francisco, has been named the winner of its inaugural Olof Johnell Science Award.

Oneida (N.Y.) Healthcare has announced the addition of two surgeons to Oneida Orthopedic Specialists — David Patalino, MD, and Jonathan Wigderson, DO.

The RARE Campaign — Reducing Avoidable Readmissions Effectively — offers three free tools to review charts and medical records of patients readmitted to the hospital to prevent future readmissions.

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute will provide up to $68 million for healthcare systems and patients to create a national patient-centered clinical research network, according to an AHA News Now report.

To get the full value of healthcare pilots, leaders need a strategy for conducting a scalable pilot and spreading successful projects to other environments and organizations, according to a discussion paper by participants of the Value Incentives Learning Collaborative of…