ASC Transactions & Valuation Issues

Here are three of the biggest healthcare transactions Becker's has reported on since July 21:

Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare now owns 100 percent of United Surgical Partners International's voting shares, CEO Saum Sutaria, MD, said during a July 22 earnings call, according to Seeking Alpha.

Amazon's plan to acquire primary care provider company One Medical could raise costs for all medical groups and further alter the dynamics of physician recruiting and acquisitions, Forbes reported. 

Optum's $300 million purchase of Healthcare Associates of Texas, a Dallas-based physician practice management company, brings Optum's acquisition deal total this year to nearly $8 billion.

US Urology Partners acquired Ormond Beach-based Florida Urology Center, an ASCs Inc. affiliate.

Albany (N.Y.) Cardiothoracic Surgeons on July 1 joined St. Peter's Health Partners Medical Associates, an Albany-based multispecialty group with physicians in 17 specialties, according to the Albany Business Review.

As ASCs are becoming popular investments among both physicians and corporations, more ASCs across the country are partnering with or being acquired by larger ventures. 

Seven ASC leaders were asked what ASC competition will look like in five years. This is how they responded:

IRA Capital, a private equity firm, has acquired two medical office buildings in Vista, Calif., predominantly occupied by San Diego-based Scripps Health.

WellSpan Health has acquired an ownership stake in Hagerstown, Md.-based Parkway Surgery Center, the health system said July 19.