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Shaved Costs, High Risk, Maximum Profits: Regulators Worry About Florida’s Butt Lift Boom

KHN

Unlike ambulatory surgery centers and hospitals, where a patient might stay overnight for observation after treatment, office-based surgery centers offer procedures that don’t typically require an inpatient stay and are regulated as an extension of a doctor’s private practice.

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Shaved Costs, High Risk, Maximum Profits: Regulators Worry About Florida’s Butt Lift Boom

KHN

Unlike ambulatory surgery centers and hospitals, where a patient might stay overnight for observation after treatment, office-based surgery centers offer procedures that don’t typically require an inpatient stay and are regulated as an extension of a doctor’s private practice.