ASC Transactions & Valuation Issues

Rockville, Md.-based National Spine and Pain Centers has merged with Roswell, Ga.-based Prospira PainCare to create the nation's largest network of interventional pain management specialists, according to a Feb. 9 announcement.

Here are nine updates on ASC companies and industry-relevant companies to note: 

Over the last four years, no state has seen more new ASC activity than Texas. 

Despite COVID-19-related disruptions, a return to pre-pandemic patient volumes in many specialties reinforced investor confidence and increased expectations for market activity in 2021, according to a February report from Provident.

Here are six ASC acquisitions in January:

VMG Health acquired Health Care Futures, a business strategy and consulting firm, according to a Feb. 3 news release.

Here's how Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare, Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare and Nashville-based Surgery Partners' shares have fluctuated over the last five days.

White Oak Healthcare made its first acquisition in Nevada, a medical office building in Henderson, for $18.8 million, Commercial Property Executive reported Feb. 2.

Healthcare Realty Trust acquired a medical office building in North Carolina for $11.58 million, the Triad Business Journal reported Feb. 1.

Nashviell, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare ended 2020 with declining outpatient surgery case volume and two fewer freestanding outpatient surgery centers than in 2019.