Medicare wants to allow far more more surgeries to be done in outpatient facilities like ambulatory surgery centers.

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 ...

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 ...

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

Since the first ambulatory surgery center opened in Phoenix in 1970, ASCs have made surgical procedures more available and convenient in most regions of the country.

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.

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.