ASC Transactions & Valuation Issues

Piedmont Athens (Ga.) Regional Medical Center partnered with Surgery Center of Athens to expand its surgical services, local news affiliate WGAU reports.

A 20,500-square-foot clinic opened May 24 beside Hendrick Surgery Center in Brownwood, Texas, according to the Abilene Reporter News.

ASC physician-owners often ask us "how to maximize the total value of their ASC business and their ASC/MOB real estate when they own both and want to sell."

Healthcare industry deal volume is expected to ramp up in the second half of 2019, with continued interest in physician practices, according to Bloomberg Law.

Despite political uncertainty, professionals anticipate a more positive outlook for healthcare deals than they did in November 2018, according to a Merrill Insight poll.

A 4,700-square-foot ASC in Willoughby, Ohio, is available for lease.

A staff shortage at the New Jersey Department of Health has left surgery centers footing the bill as a legislative backlog costs them time and resources, ROI reports.

Carmel Medical Office Building LLC filed for bankruptcy after failing to find a buyer, the Indianapolis Business Journal reports.

Legislators are again turning their attention to physician-owned hospitals, advocating to remove the moratorium on new POHs put in place by the ACA, according to the Ripon Advance. 

Anchor Health Properties acquired a medical office building leased by Delaware County, Pa.-based Crozer-Keystone Health System.