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Georganna Howell is the administrator of Greenspring Surgery Center in Baltimore, part of OrthoMaryland.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board is proposing to change healthcare accounting standards so that reports on charity care would be based on direct and indirect costs of providing the care.

Donald Berwick, MD, president and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, has been formally nominated as CMS administrator, according to a release by the White House.

Here are four statistics about pain management in ASCs, according to SDI Health.

Here are six common spine procedures by CPT code and their national average Medicare payments.

Springfield, Mo.-based CoxHealth is scheduled to open its new Meyer Orthopedic Center on May 3, which moves all of the health system's orthopedic services into a single location, according to a report by KSFX News.

Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry signed into law the "Oklahoma Interventional Pain Management and Treatment Act," which prohibits non-MD or DO providers from offering or performing interventional pain management, according to a news release from the American Society of Anesthesiologists.

Barton Health has opened its Tahoe Center for Orthopedics in South Lake Tahoe, Calif., according to a report by the Record-Courier.

The recently enacted healthcare reform legislation will affect all healthcare stakeholders — consumers, providers and employers — but sorting out the winners from the losers is an inexact science at best at this point. For physicians, especially those in specialty…

Here are the average and median EBITDA margins by percentage of net revenue for surgery centers that perform more than 50 percent of their case volume in orthopedics, according to VMG Health's 2009 Intellimarker.