ASC Transactions & Valuation Issues

Analysts believe Nashville, Tenn.-based Envision Healthcare has a big quarter in store with earnings estimated at $0.88 per share, the Fairfield Current reports.

Medical Facilities Corp. will pay a cash dividend of $0.06 per share (CDN $0.09) to shareholders of record Aug. 15.

Taft, Calif.-based West Side Health Care District is building a $9 million outpatient clinic to replace the area's long-defunct acute care hospital, the Taft Midway Driller reports.

Here are 41 ASC acquisitions and partnerships announced so far this year:

New Lenox, Ill.-based Silver Cross Hospital recently opened its new outpatient endoscopy center and is preparing to accept patients, the Daily Southtown reports.

A Kaiser outpatient center in Santa Rosa, Calif., was evacuated July 18, after a truck collided withan oxygen tanker, NBC Bay Area reports.

Pittsburgh-based Allegheny Health Network opened a full-service outpatient center in an Aspinwall, Pa.-based shopping plaza to compete with UPMC St. Margaret, the TRIB Live reports.

Here are two new joint venture ASCs with updates in the past couple months.

Here are five hospitals and health systems that opened or announced plans for ASCs in June.

Minnetonka, Minn.-based UnitedHealth Group released its second quarter earnings July 17, posting revenues of $45.8 billion. Here are six insights into UnitedHealth, as transcribed by SeekingAlpha: