ASC Transactions & Valuation Issues

Here are three key moves by Optum, parent company of ASC chain SCA Health, in the third quarter:

A 60,000-square-foot medical office building in Kannapolis, N.C., has been acquired, REBusiness Online reported Oct. 12.

Three medical office buildings in Akron, Ohio, were sold for $8.46 million by healthcare real estate firm Fairfield Advisors.

As an industry built on independent centers, the ASC market has remained fragmented amid increasing healthcare consolidation. 

Though healthcare consolidation has been on the upswing, not everyone views the trend favorably, according to the Medical Group Management Association's "Annual Regulatory Burden Report."

A portfolio of 11 medical office buildings has been acquired by GFH Financial Group, an investment bank in Bahrain, in a $400 million deal, thenationalnews.com reported Oct. 11.

A  63,000-square-foot medical office building in Clifton, N.J., has sold, NJ BIZ reported Sept. 22. 

Dallas-based United Surgical Partners International, a Tenet Healthcare subsidiary, is the largest ASC chain in the country. Here's what the company did in the third quarter:

Four medical office buildings have been sold since Sept. 26, totaling more than $66 million. 

Here are the biggest deals in the third quarter of 2022 that ASC leaders need to know: