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Gastroenterologist T. K. Thomas, MD, has joined the medical staff of Baystate Mary Lane Hospital in Ware, Mass., according to a news release.

A Kentucky Senate committee approved legislation Tuesday allowing the attorney general control over the state's prescription drug tracking system, but it included revisions to protect physicians from excessive oversight, according to a Lexington Courier-Journal report.

Manatee County in Florida this week approved a new ordinance designed to regulate existing pain clinics in the county and cut down on those that sell prescription drugs for profit, according to a Bradenton Herald report.

Here are the top 10 states with more ambulatory surgery centers than hospitals, according to 2009 data from SDI's Outpatient Surgery Center Profiling Solution.

Construction has begun on a new ambulatory care facility that will house a surgery center in Irvine, Calif., according to a news release from Swinerton Builders, the project's design-build services provider.

National Spine & Pain Centers, which operates 10 ambulatory surgery centers and is based in Rockville, Md., has acquired Virginia-based Capitol Spine & Pain Centers, according to a news release.

Judith F. Baumhauer, MD, an orthopedic surgeon at the University of Rochester (N.Y.) Medical Center, recently received the Greater Rochester 2012 Athena Award, according to an AAOS Now report.

Surgeons at St. Joseph's Hospital in Tampa recently performed ankle surgery on New York Yankees pitcher Joba Chamberlain, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek news report.

Editor's note: This article by Tony Mira, president and CEO of Anesthesia Business Consultants, an anesthesia & pain management billing and practice management services company, originally appeared in Anesthesia Business Consultants eAlerts, a free electronic newsletter. Sign-up to receive this…

KSF Orthopaedic Center in Houston, Texas, has announced the addition of interventional pain management physician John W. Hume, MD, according to a Healthcare Global report.