ASC Transactions & Valuation Issues

Five ASCs have said they would close their doors this year, citing low patient volumes, financial strain and more.

United Surgical Partners International has more than 475 surgery centers, the most of any ASC chain. 

Surgery center chains have consolidated in the last decade to five mega-companies and a handful of small regional chains with growth prospects simmering.

The ASC market has shifted in the last decade with consolidation between ASC chains and more surgery center development overall, but the percentage of independent surgery centers overall hasn't drastically shifted.

UnitedHealth Group's Optum, parent company of ASC chain SCA Health, is on a spending spree, acquiring more than $10 billion worth of companies in the last year. 

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Private equity has been the largest acquirer of private physician practices over the last five years, according to 2023 data from the American Hospital Association.

The Englewood, Colo.-based Dry Creek Medical Campus, which is anchored by a full-service ASC leased to Englewood-based Orthopedic Centers of Colorado in partnership with Deerfield, Ill.-based SCA Health, has sold to Remedy Medical Properties and Kayne Anderson Real Estate, according…

An 82,328-square-foot Methodist Southlake (Texas) medical office building outside of Fort Worth, Texas, attached to a Methodist hospital has sold, according to a June 26 report from Rebusiness Online.