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ASC Transactions & Valuation Issues

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…

Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare, parent company of ASC chain United Surgical Partners International, announced it would acquire SurgCenter Development and its more than 90 ASCs for approximately $1.2 billion in November 2021.  

Alejandro Fernandez, CEO of Synergy Orthopedic Specialists in San Diego, recently spoke with Becker's to discuss the ASC consolidation trends he is monitoring. 

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Two Waterbury, Conn.-based real estate investors have purchased a 13,871-square-foot medical office building in Torrington, Conn., for $2.47 million, according to a Feb. 13 report from the Hartford Business Journal. 

2022 saw a continuation of 2021 trends as the healthcare industry further rebounded from the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC) subindustry largely recovered in 2021, but certain specialties that lagged in 2021 saw a further recovery in…

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