ASC Transactions & Valuation Issues

Editor's note: The Becker's ASC Review e-weekly newsletter mistakenly listed Corona Summit Surgical Center as opening in Illinois. As stated in the story, the surgery center is located in Corona, California.The Corona (Calif.) Summit Surgical Center opened its doors on…

Scottsdale Healthcare and its joint venture partner Sovereign Healthcare have completed a transaction, acquiring majority ownership of Biltmore Surgical Center in Phoenix, Ariz., according to a Business Wire report.

First Surgical Partners, an ambulatory surgery center and acute care hospital company, today announced that it is currently considering going private, according to a Daily Finance report.

Here are 10 new surgery centers that have received certificate of need approvals or opened in CON states.

Middlesex Hospital in Middletown, Conn., is proposing to acquire a nearby ambulatory surgery center that exclusively performs gastroenterology and colonoscopy procedures, according to a Hartford Business report.

Hackensack University Medical Center has announced a joint venture partnership with United Surgical Partners International and community physicians in the acquisition and operation of two ambulatory surgery centers, according to a Melodika report.

North Suburban Center for Oral and Facial Surgery has announced the opening of a second location in Lake Forest, Ill., according to a Lake Forester report.

Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx is planning to spend $142.3 million on its first freestanding ambulatory surgery center, according to a Crain's New York Business report.

Here are 21 surgery centers opened, acquired or planned in September 2012.

The Ambulatory Specialty Surgery Center of Brooklyn closed earlier this month and will reopen in October as a facility providing outpatient surgeries, but not abortions, according to an NY Daily News report.