ASC Transactions & Valuation Issues

The North Carolina Division of Health Service Regulation has approved acceleration of a review of Greensboro Specialty Surgical Center's certificate of need application for a $5 million expansion project, according to a report by The Business Journal.

Healthcare providers have rushed to consolidate market power over the past few years, and 2013 has been no exception.

Here are 10 hospitals that have recently announced newly opened or planned ambulatory surgery centers.

The Public Health and Health Planning Council of the New York Department of Health has the Niagara Ambulatory Surgery Center Project on its agenda for Nov. 21, according to a Buffalo Business First report.

Lawrence County Memorial Hospital in Lawrenceville, Ill., has completed a $4.3 million, 10,000-square-foot surgery center, according to a Daily Record report.

Here are 33 statistics on case mix by ambulatory surgery center case volume, according to the VMG Multi-Specialty ASC Intellimarker 2011.

Vivere-Health and a group of physicians have opened a joint venture ambulatory surgery center and in vitro fertilization laboratory in New Orleans.

Bay Area Surgical Management, a San Francisco Bay area network of ambulatory surgery centers, has reached an agreement to become an in-network provider for Cigna.

Medical Facilities Corporation announced a 34 percent increase in consolidated facility service revenue for the third quarter of 2013, totaling $73 million.

Here are 36 statistics on case volume mix as a percentage of total cases at ambulatory surgery centers based on net revenue, according to VMG Health's ASC Intellimarker Survey 2011.