ASC Transactions & Valuation Issues

BASIC Spine, based in Orange, Calif., announced it will open a spine and pain outpatient surgery center in Newport Beach in early 2013.

The Eye Clinic of Wisconsin in Wausau will open its new surgery center in January, according to a Wausau Daily Herald report.

Blue Chip Surgical Center Partners has expanded its operations team with the hiring of the following staff members:

Novant Health is continuing its quest to prevent Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, N.C., from building a $38.67 million ambulatory surgery center, which would be located next to the hospital's main campus, according to a Business Journal report.

The New Port Richey Surgery (Fla.) Center will soon move to a new location in Trinity, according to a Suncoast News report.

The Morris (Minn.) City Council recently amended an encroachment permit for Prairie Surgicenter, according to a Morris Sun Tribune report.

Sean O'Neal, the founder of SurgCenter, a string of more than 100 physician-owned ambulatory surgery centers, is looking into building a chain of chiropractic clinics, according to a Sacramento Bee report.

Here are 70 of the many ambulatory surgery centers that opened in the United States in 2012, according to Becker's ASC Review reports. 

The Facility Guidelines Institute has proposed 2014 architectural guidelines for surgery centers that may prove burdensome, according to an ASCA report.

Two board-certified anesthesiologists and one board-certified surgeon will open the first 'green' facility dedicated to interventional pain management in Oklahoma in early 2013.