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

Despite being disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare-focused mergers and acquisitions recovered and peaked in 2020 with even more in store this year, Managed Healthcare Executive reported in its January 2021 issue.

Montecito Medical Real Estate acquired an ASC building in Michigan, according to a Jan. 25 report from REbusinessonline.com.

Huntington, W.Va.-based Marshall Health partnered with Proctorville, Ohio-based Three Gables Surgery Center to expand its outpatient surgical services, local NBC news affiliate WSAZ reported Jan. 22.

There were five ASC real estate sales over $5 million in the last 90 days:

Investor demand for medical space continues to be high in 2021. Here are six transactions involving medical office buildings, surgery centers and hospitals:

JH Winokur and ASCs Inc. sold a two-story medical office building with an ASC in California.

Optum, a UnitedHealthcare affiliate, reported fourth-quarter and 2020 revenue of $35.9 billion and $136.3 billion, respectively, the company announced Jan. 20.

Here are 10 updates on ASC companies and industry-relevant companies to note:

Pasadena, Calif.-based Acuity Eye Group acquired Yucca Valley, Calif.-based Schultz Eye Clinic, according to a Jan. 19 news release.

Here's how Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare, Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare and Nashville-based Surgery Partners' shares have fluctuated over the last five days.

Leawood, Kan.-based ValueHealth leaped into the new year with two major developments in January.

Waterbury (Conn.) Health acquired minority ownership in a freestanding ASC.

The Federal Trade Commission is requiring Aetna, Anthem, Florida Blue, Cigna, Health Care Service Corp. and UnitedHealthcare to provide patient-level commercial claims data for inpatient, outpatient and physician services as it studies the effect of physician consolidation, the agency announced Jan. 14.

Nashville, Tenn.-based Montecito Medical Real Estate acquired a medical office building in Sandusky, Ohio, that houses Northern Ohio Medical Specialists, the firm announced Jan. 13.

CVP, a network of ophthalmology practices, added three new practices to its platform, the company announced on Jan. 14.

ValueHealth acquired Oswego, Ill.-based Kendall Pointe Surgery Center, according to a Jan. 14 news release.

United Surgical Partners International expects big growth in 2021.

Here's how Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare, Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare and Nashville-based Surgery Partners' shares have fluctuated over the last five days.

Surgery Partners reported full-year revenue for 2020 of $1.86 billion on Jan. 11.