ASC Transactions & Valuation Issues

When the Affordable Care Act passed in 2010, the United States was spending more on healthcare as a percentage of gross domestic product than any other industrialized country, yet the life expectancy was below average among the developed world. The…

Founded in January 1996 by its current chairman, Tom Michaud, Oklahoma City-based Foundation HealthCare has majority ownership of two Texas surgical hospitals and minority ownership of one surgical hospital and a number of ambulatory surgical centers. The company recently released…

AmSurg reported net revenue growth in the third quarter of 2015.

St. Mary Mercy Hospital in Livonia, Mich., reached capacity in its main operating room and decided to open a new surgery center, according to a hometownlife report. 

Zacks analysts downgraded Surgical Care Affiliates from a "hold" rating to a "sell" rating, according to Voice Chronicle.

Reports from the AMA, the Physicians Foundation, and others suggest that the number of physicians who are now employed by a hospital or larger healthcare enterprise continues to rise.

Tenet Healthcare reported its third quarter revenue increased 12 percent, according to Market Watch.

MetroHealth's Middleburg Heights, Ohio, campus is now using Big Creek Surgery Center in Middleburg Heights to perform many of its outpatient surgery centers, according to a Cleveland.com report. 

AmSurg’s $7.6 billion takeover bid for physician outsourcing services company TeamHealth had a deadline of Tuesday at 4 p.m., but the surgery center company withdrew the offer approximately a day ahead of the deadline, according to The New York Times. 

Here are 11 new outpatient surgery centers and ambulatory surgery centers opened or announced in the past month.