ASC Transactions & Valuation Issues

Optum, parent company of ASC chain SCA Health, and Tenet Healthcare, parent company of ASC chain United Surgical Partners International, have made big moves in the last year, continuing their consolidation of physicians and ASCs. 

 Recent comments from UnitedHealth and Humana suggest medical costs could rise from delayed elective surgeries, which could be good news for ASCs, ALM Benefits Pro reported June 20. 

Here are three major ASC deals in 2023:

Ambulatory infusion services provider Vivo Infusion has acquired Specialty Infusion, an industry leader with 14 ambulatory infusion centers in New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts. 

Here are eight moves from Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente that Becker's has reported on since April 26:

The Medical Center of Tomball (Texas) has been purchased for $24.6 million, according to a June 15 report from ConnectCRE.

Here is where five major ASC chains are focused on growth in 2023, ordered by number of ASCs:

Tenet Healthcare, parent company of ASC chain United Surgical Partners International, ranked 215th on the 69th Fortune 500, released June 5. 

Cincinnati Children's Hospital has purchased a medical office building near its Avondale, Ohio-based campus for just under $2.2 million, according to a June 14 report from the Cincinnati Business Courier. 

Article was reposted with permission from ECG Management.  Ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) have consistently been a source of strong merger and acquisition (M&A) deal activity over the last decade. As ASC management companies, health systems, and private equity (PE) firms…