The biggest oversight made during due diligence is a mismatch in work cultures, according to a West Monroe Partners and Mergermarket report.

Adopting price transparency for ambulatory surgical center services can increase surgical volume, revenue and patient satisfaction, according to a study in The American Surgeon.

U.S. state and local governments devoted 30.7 percent of their budgets to healthcare and social services in 2015, up from 27.6 percent in 2005, Market Watch reports.

The average time it takes for patients to schedule a new appointment with physicians has increased 30 percent since 2014, according to a 2017 Merritt Hawkins survey.

Hackers breached protected health information most often through physical records in the first quarter of 2018, HIPAA Journal reports. 

The majority of executives are planning healthcare partnerships, alliances and joint ventures to gain access to outside expertise and/or technology, according to a West Monroe Partners and Mergermarket report.

The number of Medicare-certified ASCs nearly doubled from 2000 to 2017, according to Avanza Healthcare Strategies' Outpatient Statistical Snapshot.

While most companies prefer six to 10 active physician owners at single-specialty ASCs, one-third of companies said there should be 11 to 15 at multispecialty centers, according to HealthCare Appraisers' 2018 ASC Valuation Survey.

The Pacific region has the highest total number of staffing hours per case, according to VMG Health's 2018 Multi-Specialty ASC Benchmarking Study.

Although California often tops the list of healthcare data breaches because of its large population, Illinois had the most breaches in the U.S. for April, HIPAA Journal reports. 

The top strategic driver of healthcare acquisitions for firms is consolidation or scaling up to increase competitiveness, according to a West Monroe report. 

Non-hospital provider facilities such as ASCs are a No. 1 acquisition target for 10 percent of healthcare acquirers, according to a West Monroe report.

Eight metro areas with booming populations had recent shortages of at least 500 nurses and saw consistent scarcities for the last three years, according to LinkedIn data. 

ASCs across the country are benchmarking their surgical cases to maximize the value of their centers. In every region, except the Northeast, the average ASC has four operating rooms and two procedure rooms; the average ASC in the Northeast has three operating rooms and two procedure rooms.

Psychiatrists, plastic surgeons and physiatrists saw the greatest increases in compensation this year, according to Medscape's Compensation Report 2018. 

Most ASCs are urban and for-profit, according to a Medicare Payment Advisory Commission analysis of 2017 CMS data.

Forty-one healthcare data breaches were reported to HHS' Office for Civil Rights in April, marking the third consecutive month the number of records exposed by healthcare data breaches increased, HIPAA Journal reports.

Fifty percent of organizations see a 2 percent to 2.9 percent annual change in the ASC market for commercial payer rates, according to HealthCare Appraisers' 2018 ASC Valuation Survey. 

Most ophthalmologists consider themselves "savers," but 9 percent of physicians in the specialty reported living above their means, according to Medscape's 2018 Physician Wealth & Debt Report.

Forty-three percent of physicians who save more than $2,000 per month in a tax-deferred account are in the 50 year to 64 year age range, according to Medscape's Physician Wealth and Debt Report 2018.