ASC Transactions & Valuation Issues

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

Healthcare deals hit a record total of $421 billion in 2018, and the transactions could radically change pharmaceuticals and disease treatments, Business Insider reports.

Eagle Rock Surgery Center and Bingham Healthcare partnered to operate a new clinic location, the Post Register reports. All are based in Idaho Falls, Idaho.

Real estate investment company MBRE Healthcare acquired the building housing Golden, Colo.-based Panorama Orthopedics & Spine Center and Golden Ridge Surgery Center for $26.6 million, the Colorado Real Estate Journal reports.

Bellevue (Ohio) Hospital opened Eagle Crest Health Park, a $7 million outpatient focused medical park near the hospital, the Sandusky Register reports.

PhysiciansFirst Healthcare Partners predicts healthcare will see a significant amount of transactions involving private equity in 2019.

Johnstown, Pa.-based Conemaugh Health System broke ground on an outpatient center in Somerset, Pa., Dec. 12., WTAJ reports.

Healthcare has seen a steady increase in deals involving private equity buyers or sellers, and an estimated 169 more will close in the last few weeks of 2018, according to a PwC report.

Here are 10 hospitals and health systems that opened or announced plans for ASCs in November:

Tulane Surgery Clinic Northshore will open in Covington, La., in early 2019, The Times-Picayune reports.