ASC Transactions & Valuation Issues

Here are eight orthopedic-driven surgery centers that have opened or made news in January and February 2017.

Sheridan (Wyo.) Memorial Hospital and Sheridan (Wyo.) Surgical Center signed a business and real estate purchasing agreement that will give the hospital's orthopedic patients access to the surgery center, according to the Sheridan Press.

Roanoke, Va.-based Vistar Eye Center acquired Rocky Mount, Va.-based Saxon Angle and Associates, The Roanoke Times reports.

Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare shares have dropped over the last several weeks, according to Highland Mirror.

On the heels of Deerfield, Ill.-based Surgical Care Affiliates announcing its merger with Optum, a part of UnitedHealth Group, UnitedHealth Group began an exchange offer to acquire all SCA outstanding shares.

Surgical Care Affiliates partnered with 19 surgery centers last year.

Cleburne-based Texas Health Surgery Center commemorated its 10-year anniversary with a reopening and open house, the Cleburne Times-Review reports.

Nearly three years ago, North Charleston, S.C.-based Palmetto Primary Care Physicians, an outpatient physicians group, filed plans to open a $22.8 million facility featuring an ASC. However, those plans failed to come to fruition, the Post and Courier reports.

Here are five updates on ASC management companies from the past week.

Aurora-based UCHealth is building a new outpatient center that will offer ambulatory surgery and primary care to Denver residents, according to 9 News.