ASC Transactions & Valuation Issues

Private equity firm Shore Capital Partners made 61 healthcare-related deals in 2022, according to investment data company PitchBook.

Dallas-based United Surgical Partners International, Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare and Deerfield, Ill.-based SCA Health are three of the largest ASC operators in the country. 

Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., teamed with Brian Miller, MD, an assistant professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, to pen a column for The Wall Street Journal calling for an end to the ban on physician-owned…

 Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare, parent company of ASC chain United Surgical Partners International, will pump $250 million into ASC mergers and acquisitions, the company said Feb. 9 during its fourth-quarter earnings call transcribed by Seeking Alpha.

A long-term leased 10,000-square-foot medical office building in East Windsor, N.J., has been listed for sale, according to a Feb. 17 report from roi-nj.com.

CVS Health recently confirmed it will acquire primary care company Oak Street Health in an all-cash deal worth $10.6 billion.

Here are three ASC and clinic closures to know since Jan. 30:

Capitol Pain Institute, a national pain management clinic and ASC network based in Austin, Texas, has acquired Bloomington, Ind.-based Wellspring Pain Solutions.

Although the ASC industry remains fragmented, some leaders are worried about the viability of independent ASCs amid an increasingly consolidated healthcare landscape. 

ASCs striving for growth should perform three essential processes — benchmarking, monitoring and auditing — often in conjunction with one another. Internal benchmarking helps an ASC determine whether it’s achieving its targeted levels of growth. External benchmarking helps an ASC…