Five major physician practice deals to know in 2022:

On November 1, 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the CY 2023 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC) payment system policy changes and payment rates final rule.

Family Health Care Centers of San Diego has purchased a medical office property from Magnolia Mar Properties for $8.4 million. The sale of the 25,916-square-foot space was negotiated by Pacific Coast Commercial.

An arbitration panel in Florida has ruled that UnitedHealthcare must pay a TeamHealth clinician group $10.8 million for alleged underpayments from 2017 to 2020. 

Here are 19 things to know about Dallas-based United Surgical Partners International, the industry's largest ASC chain, going into 2023:

Here are the biggest ASC deals in November:

Private equity firm Thomas Park Investments has acquired a medical office building in Lower Pottsgrove Township, Pa., WFMZ reported Dec. 1.

Here are 8 medical office building transactions Becker's reported on in November:

Nine ASCs in New York City, the country's largest city, and eight ASCs in Houston, the country's fourth largest city, made Newsweek's "America's Best Ambulatory Surgery Centers," which ranks 510 of the more than 5,000 Medicare-certified ASCs in the country.

A joint venture between AEW Capital Management and Flagship Healthcare Trust has acquired eight ASCs across seven states, the company said in a Nov. 30 news release shared with Becker's. 

As procedures migrate to the outpatient setting, ASC leaders are seeing cardiology and orthopedics as huge opportunities for growth. 

Indianapolis-based Shore Terrace Medical Center's medical office building was acquired under a partnership between Indianapolis-based Urban Growth Capital, BrightPoint Real Estate and Chicago-based North Companies.

The demand for lithotripsy procedures is expected to increase in the coming years. This expected increase is supported by a review of the Global Lithotripsy Devices Market.

An office and medical park in Wayne, N.J., was sold for $22.25 million, roi-nj.com reported Nov. 28.

Loma Starr, a two-building office and medical office property in San Diego, was sold for $7.4 million, REBusiness Online reported Nov. 28.

The healthcare industry is increasingly consolidating as operation costs soar — physicians are migrating to employed models and private practices are being bought up by larger entities. 

Premier Health is opening a 15,000-square-foot medical office building in Xenia, Ohio, according to a Nov. 22 report from the Dayton Daily News. 

A medical office building in Chattanooga, Tenn., has sold to a real estate private equity firm for $7.4 million, Times Free Press reported Nov. 21. 

Surgery Partners has snagged an $800 million equity offering, the Brentwood, Tenn.-based ASC chain said Nov. 21. 

A 51,357-square-foot medical office building in Geneseo, N.Y., has sold for $15.9 million, according to a November report from Rebusiness Online.