ASC Transactions & Valuation Issues

National Bank Financial has increased Medical Facilities Corporation's price target from C$15.50 to C$17.00, according to a Ticker Report.

Integrated Medical Professionals, a clinical associate of Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, has opened Advanced Colon & Rectal Surgery Centers of New York in Melville, according to a heraldonline.com report.

The North Carolina Division of Health Service Regulation has approved acceleration of a review of Greensboro Specialty Surgical Center's certificate of need application for a $5 million expansion project, according to a report by The Business Journal.

Healthcare providers have rushed to consolidate market power over the past few years, and 2013 has been no exception.

Here are 10 hospitals that have recently announced newly opened or planned ambulatory surgery centers.

The Public Health and Health Planning Council of the New York Department of Health has the Niagara Ambulatory Surgery Center Project on its agenda for Nov. 21, according to a Buffalo Business First report.

Lawrence County Memorial Hospital in Lawrenceville, Ill., has completed a $4.3 million, 10,000-square-foot surgery center, according to a Daily Record report.

Here are 33 statistics on case mix by ambulatory surgery center case volume, according to the VMG Multi-Specialty ASC Intellimarker 2011.

Vivere-Health and a group of physicians have opened a joint venture ambulatory surgery center and in vitro fertilization laboratory in New Orleans.

Bay Area Surgical Management, a San Francisco Bay area network of ambulatory surgery centers, has reached an agreement to become an in-network provider for Cigna.