ASC Transactions & Valuation Issues

Optum, the largest employer of physicians in the country, has doubled down on its physician acquisition strategy in 2023. 

A handful of ASCs have changed hands in 2023, due to factors including health system bankruptcy filings. 

CVS Health, one of the country's largest employers of physicians, has rebranded its healthcare delivery services.

Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare, one of the country's largest operators of ASCs, is on a spending spree – inking three deals in the last week. 

Here are 10 acquisitions of ASCs and medical buildings that occurred last month, as reported by Becker's in November:

Central Maine Health Ventures, a subsidiary of Auburn-based Central Maine Healthcare, is attempting to acquire full ownership of its ASC, Central Maine Orthopaedics Ambulatory Surgical Center in Auburn, according to a Dec. 1 report from the Sun Journal.

ASC chain AmSurg has undergone a metamorphosis in 2023.

Here are three major practice and care center closures on which Becker's reported in November:

Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital has completed the $290 million purchase of Bravera Health properties in Citrus and Hernando from Community Health Systems, which include two ASCs, according to a Dec. 1 report from Health News Florida.

With a year filled with deals, partnerships and acquisitions, ASC chain Surgery Partners has been anything but passive in 2023.