ASC Transactions & Valuation Issues

Graymark Healthcare, based in Oklahoma City, Okla., has announced that is has acquired Foundation Surgery Affiliates and Foundation Surgical Hospital Affiliates.

Here are 12 statistics on Medicare funding sources and areas of Medicare expenditure from the 2009 annual report of the Board of Trustees of the Medicare trust funds, according to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission.

Liberty Park (Ala.) Breast and Body Reconstruction has received a certificate of need for the construction of an ambulatory surgery center, according to a Birmingham Business Journal report.

A partnership formed by MedProperties Holdings, a Dallas-based healthcare real estate private equity investment firm, and Equity, a commercial real estate company based in Columbus, Ohio, has acquired the Evendale Healthcare Center in Cincinnati, according to a Healthcare Finance News…

The UAB Health System has received a certificate of need from the State Health Planning and Development Agency for the conversion of the Kirklin Clinic in Birmingham, Ala., into the outpatient department of the University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital,…

Most physicians foresee hospital integration as the way of the future, even though they haven't considered integration themselves, according to the Deloitte's Physician Perspectives Survey.

The Center for Spine & Pain Medicine, an established medical practice, has filed a certificate of need for a $514,557 ambulatory surgical treatment center in Chattanooga, Tenn., according to a mondaq report.

The Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services has granted UC Health approval for the construction of a 42,000-square-foot, $8.8 million ambulatory care clinic in Florence, Ky., according to a Cincinnati.com report.

Lake Health has opened the Lake Health Bariatric Surgery Center in Cleveland, according to a cleveland.com report.

Here are 15 statistics on the projected annual growth rate of Medicare from 2011 to 2020, according to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission.