ASC Transactions & Valuation Issues

Here are eight hospitals and health systems opening or expanding ambulatory surgery centers.

Joseph Hurley, president of the Surgery Center of Kenai (Alaska) has filed form D for $1 million in equity financing, according to an OCTA FINANCE report. 

Here are four recent ambulatory surgery center and surgical hospital acquisitions.

Physician-owned hospital industry opponents overstated previous research to their advantage, according to a new BMJ study which also found no evidence that POHs avoid poorer patients or patients from minority groups.

Tenet Healthcare formed a joint venture with Dignity Health and Ascension, according to Nasdaq.

Somerset Outpatient Surgery in Somerville, N.J., has filed form D for $463,770 in equity financing, according to an OCTA FINANCE report.

Sell-side analysts are predicting AmSurg will report earnings of $0.90 for the current fiscal quarter, according to a Markets Daily report.

Preferred Surgicenter opened in Orland Park, Ill.

Cleveland Clinic Florida plans to expand its Weston location and build a new clinic and an ambulatory surgery center in Coral Springs.

Sale/Lease-backs of ASCs allow the real estate owners to sell their ASC real estate, pocket the profits, and lease-back the ASC at the same rent they were paying before, with no personal lease guarantees.