Outpatient surgery at a surgery center provides convenience, frequently has the best and latest equipment, and may offer easier scheduling and transportation options, Special to NJ.com Let's face ...

The proposed rule would send an additional $8 billion to hospitals next year, but includes a number of other policies ...

The Trump administration is opening the floodgates for more surgeries to be done in outpatient facilities like ambulatory surgery centers, proposing a Medicare policy that could accelerate the shift ...

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Surgery centers don't have to report deaths in 17 states. Leapfrog published figures based on surveys of 321 ambulatory surgery centers and 1,141 hospital outpatient surgery departments.

Essentially, there are three different types of outpatient surgery centers: ambulatory surgery centers (ASC), physician office surgery centers and hospital outpatient department surgery centers.

Outpatient surgeries — those without an overnight hospital stay — happen in a hospital or a freestanding surgery center. Hernia repairs, knee replacements or bone fracture repairs are typical.

Surrounded by bankers, engineers, contractors and others, Baxter Regional Medical Center officials officially broke ground Wednesday on the hospital’s new outpatient surgery center. The 23,000 ...