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Lewis Yocum, MD, of Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic in Los Angeles, will perform elbow surgery on Angels pitcher C.J. Wilson, according to an Los Angeles Time report.

Robert S. Heidt, Jr., MD, has been named to Xavier University's board of trustees, according to a Business Courier report.

At the 19th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago, Larry Cohen, MD, and Jordan Fowler, CEO of Frontier Healthcare Management Services, will give a presentation titled "Key Business and Clinical Issues for Endoscopy Centers."

A few Des Moines (Iowa) hospitals have imposed limits on prescription painkillers to curb abuse, according to a Des Moines Register report.

A Jeffersonville (Ind.) city councilman has introduced measures to restrict new pain clinic locations within the city, according to a Courier-Journal report.

Gerhard Schmeisser, MD, a retired orthopedic surgeon and professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, has passed away, according to a Baltimore Sun report.

The Dallas Mavericks have extended the contract of team physician Tarek O. Souryal, MD, of Texas Sports Medicine and Orthopaedic Group in Dallas, according to a Star Telegram report.

Here are the top ranked electronic health systems by how easy they are to learn, based on the Medscape EHR Report 2012: Physicians Rank Top EHRs report.

With the advent of mandatory quality reporting and increasing pressure on ASCs to cut costs, benchmarking is becoming all the more important. Here are 100 surgery center benchmarks, provided by VMG Health's Multi-Specialty Intellimarker 2011. All numbers are averages.

Over time, surgery centers may need to grow from their original size and expand to accommodate additional case volume or specialties to stay competitive.