ASC Transactions & Valuation Issues

Ophthalmology is one to the top three ambulatory surgery center key specialties at 17 percent of total case volume, according to VMG Health's Intellimarker Survey 2011. Here are seven eye surgery-driven centers that planned, expanded or announced an achievement.

NVISION Laser Eye Centers announced the acquisition of two practices of Nevada Eye Care, NVISION's first acquisitions in the state.

Though overall healthcare merger and acquisition activity decreased 9 percent in the fourth quarter of 2013, according to an Irving Levin Associates report, there were a number of ambulatory surgery center acquisitions and partnerships within the past month.

Aurora Health Care plans to break ground on an ambulatory surgery center just outside of Burlington, Wis., next year, according to a Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal Sentinel report.

Here are 12 statistics on ambulatory surgery center accounts receivable based on the number of operating rooms, according to VMG Health's ASC Intellimarker Survey 2011.

Overall healthcare merger and acquisition volume decreased 9 percent year-over-year to 281 deals in the fourth quarter of 2013, according to a report from Irving Levin Associates.

In the past the relationship between ambulatory surgery centers and hospitals was typically adversarial, but as healthcare changes ASC leaders are trading old notions for a new vision of collaborative care.

Here are six ambulatory surgery centers that have recently opened, expanded or been announced as upcoming projects.

The Monticello Community Surgery Center is expected to open in Charlottesville, Va., next month, according to a report by The Daily Progress.

Lehigh Valley Health Network will open LVHN Surgical Center, an outpatient orthopedic surgery center, at the former Westfield Hospital in South Whitehall Township, Pa., according to an LVB.com report.