ASC Transactions & Valuation Issues

The outpatient acquisition wave is no longer a trend to watch. It is the defining structural force reshaping how surgical care, physician services, and urgent care are owned, staffed, and how companies compete for them.  More than 40 physician practice…

For some physicians, ASC ownership has been thought of as a simple investment in which their main responsibilities include investing capital, completing the work and collecting a distribution. While that model does exist, some ASC leaders say it rarely works…

Rapid City, S.D.-based Monument Health will lease the Gillette, Wyo., clinic and equipment formerly operated by Hoskinson Health & Wellness Clinic, the health system announced July 1 in a news release shared with Becker’s.  Monument Health will run the space…

Charlotte Eye Ear Nose & Throat Associates has acquired Piedmont Ear, Nose & Throat Associates, a Winston-Salem-based ENT group with five locations across the Triad region of North Carolina, The Charlotte Observer reported July 1.  The acquisition expands CEENTA’s footprint…

Cardiology, gastroenterology and primary care are losing independent practices at a pace that separates them from the rest of the field, driven by a combination of Medicare payment erosion, private equity consolidation and hospital acquisition pressure. Between 2012 and 2024,…

Physician partnership disputes can be detrimental to ASC ownership models — are rarely discussed during the courtship phase of a merger or acquisition. “The issues that break partnerships are almost never clinical,” Scott Freer, clinical administrator of ASC Bala Cynwyd…

Sanitas Medical Center, a Doral-based outpatient healthcare provider, has filed a WARN notice with the Florida Department of Commerce disclosing layoffs affecting 211 employees across 15 cities statewide. The notice, received by the state on June 9, cites company restructuring…

Physician practice consolidation continued at a rapid pace through the first half of 2026, with more than 40 transactions spanning ophthalmology, cardiology, gastroenterology, dermatology, primary care and orthopedics.  Buyers ranged from national health systems and physician-owned platforms to private equity-backed…

Here are 10 hospitals and health systems that laid off employees in the month of June, as reported by Becker’s: 1. Springfield, Mass.-based Baystate Health laid off an undisclosed number of employees as part of an effort to reduce administrative…

Three physician practices announced closures in June, amid financial and staffing pressures squeezing independent practices.  The list spans a single-specialty urology group losing its physicians, a national payer-owned primary care chain trimming its footprint and a regional health system shuttering…