ASC Transactions & Valuation Issues

Surgical Center of Greensboro (N.C.) was sold for $23.8 million, the Triad Business Journal reports.

Since mid-August, Becker's ASC Review has reported on four acquisitions involving surgery centers or their properties, as well as two acquisitions of specialty groups.

Nine percent of ASCs are at least partly corporate-owned, according to Global Healthcare Advisors, a boutique investment bank focused on healthcare mergers and acquisitions.

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.

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

Chicago real estate firm Stage Equity Partners acquired Little Rock-based Endoscopy Center of Arkansas, a 10,000-square-foot surgery center, the Arkansas Democrat Gazette reports.

Gillette-based North East Wyoming Surgery Center changed hands and rebranded.

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.

Twenty-two ASCs were opened or announced in August:

Vincennes, Ind.-based The Good Samaritan acquired the building that housed the former First Street Surgery Center for $875,000, TriStateHomepage.com reports.