ASC Transactions & Valuation Issues

This article was written by Arthur E. Casey, CASC, Senior Vice President of Business Development, Outpatient Healthcare Strategies.

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital will receive $20 million from the Eric Trump Foundation toward a $198 million surgery and ICU center, according to a Commercial Appeal report.

The global inpatient and outpatient pharmacy automatic market value is expected to reach nearly $3.9 billion in 2017 after growing at a CAGR of 8 percent, according to an Equities report.

Munroe Regional Medical Center in Ocala, Fla., has agreed to purchase a 20 percent share of Surgery Center of Ocala's business, according to an Ocala report.

Here is a graph of states that require a certificate of need and states that do not, as well as the number of Medicare-certified ASCs in each state (from the last year of reported data, 2007). A CON is a…

VMG Health has announced Kevin McDonough, CFA, and Jim Rolfe as the newest partners at VMG Health.

Virtua has formed a partnership with Ramapo Valley Surgical Center in Ramsey, N.J., according to a Philadelphia Business Journal.

Licking Memorial Health Systems plans to convert the Medical Center of Newark (Ohio) to an outpatient facility while exploring whether there is a future for inpatient services at the facility, according to a Columbus Business Journal report.

YMD Oculofacial Plastic Surgery is expected to open in Winter Park, Fla., in 2013, according to an Orlando Business Journal report.

A Wasau, Wis., eye clinic is opening a 6,000-square-foot surgery center, according to a WJFW report.