ASC Transactions & Valuation Issues

Brentwood, Tenn.-based Surgery Partners is leaning into building de novo ASCs rather than acquiring existing facilities in 2026, according to its second-quarter earnings call.  As a result of the change in strategy, the company will miss its $200 million average…

Ascension Medical Group St. John Primary Care Pawhuska (Okla.) closed permanently on June 30, ending Dr. James Priest’s 59-year run as the rural Oklahoma clinic’s physician, Tulsa World reported Aug. 17.  Dr. Priest, now in his late 80s, joined the…

A Lowcountry, S.C. plastic surgery practice has abruptly closed after its parent company, GVO Partners, collapsed into bankruptcy, leaving patients mid-treatment and money paid for unperformed procedures tied up in federal court, WCSC reported. Sweetgrass Plastic Surgery & Spa’s website…

For much of the past decade, the story of physicians’ practice has moved decidedly away from independence.  Hospital and corporate employment of physicians climbed from 62% to 78% between 2019 and 2023, and private practice fell from 60% of physicians…

Brentwood, Tenn.-based Surgery Partners has added 330 physicians so far in 2026, and this year’s recruits are generating revenue nearly 16% faster than last year’s class did, according to Eric Evans, the company’s CEO. Here are five things to know…

There comes a point when health system’s ASC moves stop being a side project and start requiring a more involved strategy, and, according to Atlas Healthcare Partners CEO Aric Burke it’s when revenue is above roughly $2 billion to $3…

Atlas Healthcare Partners’ oldest health system relationship is also its clearest proof point. In the Banner Health market, Atlas grew from eight ASCs to 32, a fourfold increase, over roughly eight years. “For our Banner market, we started with eight…

Amsurg has acquired Capital Surgery Center in Baton Rouge, La., marking the Nashville, Tenn.-based ASC operator’s eighth facility in Louisiana and second in the Baton Rouge market. Capital Surgery Center operates an 8,250-square-foot outpatient facility at 8250 Picardy Avenue with…

Private equity’s growing footprint in healthcare — and a string of high-profile bankruptcies, closures and cost complaints tied to investor-owned providers — has pushed state legislatures to write their own rules for reviewing healthcare deals.  Most of these laws require…

Every health system building out an ASC network eventually faces the same decision in every new market: whether to acquire an existing center, build a new one or convert something the hospital already owns. The question has taken on more…