Optum’s big inpatient pivot & more — 6 ASC industry notes

Here are six updates on ASC companies and industry-relevant companies to note: 

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Eden Prairie, Minn.-based Optum has broken from its pattern of acquiring physician practices, outpatient clinics, urgent care facilities and surgery centers with plans to take over John Muir Health’s non-clinical functions. Read more. 

Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare will spin off its Conifer business into a separate, publicly traded company. 

Brentwood, Tenn.-based Surgery Partners is getting ready to open a new ASC.

Evanston-based Illinois Gastroenterology Group closed a private equity deal joining the GI Alliance, which created the largest independent gastroenterology services organization in the nation.

The Cleveland Clinic is planning to add new surgical facilities to its Cole Eye Institute. 

Total joint and spine center developer MUVE Health partnered with digital health joint venture Quil to reduce cost and improve outcomes for total joint replacement surgery.

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