Envision, UnitedHealthcare agree to extend payer contract & more — 7 ASC company key notes

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

Following months of termination threats and legal disputes between the two companies, Minnetonka, Minn.-based UnitedHealthcare agreed to extend its nationwide payer contract with Nashville, Tenn.-based Envision (AmSurg) Healthcare. Read more.

Nashville, Tenn.-based Envision Physician Services appointed Rebecca Parker, MD, its new Chief Medical Affairs Officer.

Addison, Texas-based United Surgical Partners International plans to build an outpatient surgery center in Citrus Heights, Calif.

Cigna's contract with Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare is set to expire Jan. 1, 2019, as the two failed to reach an agreement after 11 months of negotiations. Read more.

MedCore Partners is developing a two-story, 65,000-square-foot, class A medical office building and ASC, which Southlake-based Spine Team Texas will anchor.

NMS Capital made a strategic investment in Gahanna-based Central Ohio Urology Group along with the group's physician shareholders.

Rockdale, Texas-based Little River Healthcare closed all of its facilities and operations Dec. 4 — including Temple (Texas) Surgery Center — due to "unfortunate financial conditions," according to a statement on the system's website. Read more.

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