Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare continues to double down on developing outpatient facilities and increasing outpatient procedure migration, according to an April 21 first-quarter earnings call transcribed by Seeking Alpha. 

Physician practice management services organizations and physician practices or groups will soon be required to send a comprehensive filing for transactions to the state of New York, JDSupra reported May 5. 

Peoria, Ill.-based OSF HealthCare has become the majority investor in Champaign, Ill.-based ASC Olympian Surgical Suites. 

CVS Health reported $2.1 billion in profit in the first quarter of 2023, according to the company's earnings, posted May 3.

As procedures increasingly migrate to the outpatient setting, ASCs continue to grow. 

While ASC giants United Surgical Partners International and SCA Health are seeing huge growth in the last decade, they are not the only companies to keep an eye on. 

Nashville, Tenn.-based Capitol Pain Institute is entering the Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minn., metropolitan market through the acquisition of Edina, Minn.-based Nura Pain Clinics. 

Healthcare services company Surgery Partners spent just under $250 million on ASC acquisitions in 2022, and the company has no plans on slowing its growth in 2023.

Nashville, Tenn. -based Surgery Partners has acquired Kansas Spine & Specialty Hospital in Wichita, Kan.

CVS Health completed its acquisition of primary care organization Oak Street Health in an all-cash, $10.6 billion deal. 

Healthcare strategy and advisory firm VMG Health has acquired healthcare consulting firm BSM Consulting. 

Here are four major ASC deals Becker's reported on in April:

Debra Fin, administrator of Midland, Mich.-based Great Lakes Bay Surgery & Endoscopy Center, joined Becker's to discuss what will disrupt the ASC industry next. 

Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health and Nashville, Tenn.-based healthcare services company Surgery Partners have signed a collaboration agreement in which Surgery Partners will take over management of Intermountain's existing ASCs in Utah and Idaho and will develop more ASCs in other select markets. 

Columbus-based OhioHealth and Nashville-based healthcare services company Surgery Partners have formed a new company to grow ASC joint ventures across the state of Ohio, according to an April 28 press release sent to Becker's. 

UnitedHealth Group's Optum, parent company of ASC chain SCA Health, is on a spending spree, scooping up physician groups and expanding its portfolio. 

Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente has inked a deal to acquire Geisinger Health and its more than 1,700 physicians. 

Dallas-based United Surgical Partners International is the largest ASC chain by both number of surgery centers and number of physicians. 

Dallas-based United Surgical Partners International is continuing to grow, with $340 million in adjusted earnings in the first quarter, according to an April 25 earnings call from Tenet, USPI's parent company, as transcribed by Seeking Alpha. 

Tenet Healthcare's ASC arm — Dallas-based United Surgical Partners International — is the largest ASC chain in the country by number of physicians.