ASC Transactions & Valuation Issues

As independent physicians become more and more rare, ambulatory surgery centers are increasingly seeking hospital partnerships to gain strength and stability.

Here are five recent ambulatory surgery center acquisition agreements.

New York Methodist Hospital plans to build an eight-story outpatient care building in Park Slope, according to a DNAinfo New York report.

Here are 40 statistics on surgery center staff wages, salary and hours per case by geographical location, according to VMG Health's ASC Intellimarker Survey 2011.

AmSurg's third quarter earnings per share of $0.53 increased 10 percent over the same period last year, according to a Zacks Equity Research Report.

Here are 13 ambulatory surgery centers that have recently opened, been announced or initiated expansion projects.

Greensboro (N.C.) Specialty Surgical Center has received conditional approval for a $5 million expansion project, according to a report by The Business Journal.

Here are nine statistics on surgery center cash, net accounts receivable and working capital as a percentage of net revenue based on case volume, according to VMG Health's 2011 ASC Intellimarker Survey.

Construct-A-Lead has announced that Kaleida Health intends to build a $2.7 million, freestanding ambulatory surgery center in Orchard Park, N.Y.

Construct-A-Lead announced that Constitution Surgery Center East in Waterford, Conn., will move forward with a $3.5 million expansion project.