Becker’s ASC

Physician-owned ASCs have more options for corporate partnership than ever, and those partners are themselves changing hands. St. Louis-based Ascension completed its $3.9 billion acquisition of AmSurg in June, growing its ASC network from 58 centers to more than 300…

Port Huron, Mich.-based Northpointe OB-GYN has been acquired by McLaren Port Huron, part of Grand Blanc, Mich.-based McLaren Health Care, according to an Oct. 29 news release. Northpointe is the area’s only comprehensive OB-GYN provider. The practice will become McLaren…

A Glendale, Calif.-based physician has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for billing Medicare more than $45 million for Botox injections that were medically unnecessary or never provided, according to the Justice Department. Violetta Mailyan, 45, owned and operated…

Dallas-based U.S. Anesthesia Partners has reached settlements in principle in two proposed class action lawsuits alleging it overcharged Texas patients and health plans for anesthesia. The parties disclosed the agreements in notices filed Oct. 30 in the U.S. District Court…

University of Miami Health System, known as UHealth, acquired Physicians Group of South Florida, effective Nov. 2. The deal moved the North Miami practice’s three gastroenterologists to UHealth SoLé Mia Medical Center. David Cohen, MD, Arin Newman, MD, and Daniel…

Dallas-based Lincoln Property Company and PGIM acquired the SOBO Medical Building, a 52,410-square-foot outpatient medical building and surgery center in Boerne, Texas. The building opened in 2019, is about 93% leased, and its anchor tenants are Baptist Health System and…

Vision Innovation Partners has opened the Maryland Vision Institute Surgical Center, an ophthalmology ASC in Frederick, Md. The Annapolis, Md.-based eye care platform announced the opening Nov. 2. The ASC handles only outpatient eye surgery. It offers cataract and lens…

Syed Kablazada of Des Plaines, Ill., pleaded guilty Oct. 30 to two counts of healthcare fraud in a $227 million Medicare fraud scheme that billed for COVID-19 test kits beneficiaries never requested or received. Over six months starting in January…