ASC Transactions & Valuation Issues

Heritage Community Initiatives, successor of the Heritage Health Foundation, could receive $3 million from its 1996 sale of Braddock (Pa.) Hospital to the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center if a U.S. District Court rules that the hospital was sold for…

To demonstrate the return on investment on evidence-based design elements, the Center for Health Design in 2004 imagined a hospital that would include key features of recently built or redesigned facilities. Numerous research studies have shown that these design elements…

A difficult economic climate has led many healthcare providers, including ASCs and hospitals, to make significant efforts to cut costs and improve revenues. Although providers have done well in adapting to this climate, some factors still have made an impact…

Hospital prices increased 1.4 percent in December, 3.4 percent higher than in Dec. 2008, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Producer Price Index.

Here are the average amounts of cash, net accounts receivable and working capital for surgery centers and their relative percentages of total assets, according to VMG Health's 2009 Intellimarker.

Here are the average and median debts and leverage ratios for surgery centers that perform more than 50 percent of the case volume in orthopedics, according to VMG Health's 2009 Intellimarker.

Here are the average debts and leverage ratios for surgery centers by total annual case volume, according to VMG Health's 2009 Intellimarker.

Here are the average debts and leverage ratios for surgery centers by total annual revenue, according to VMG Health's 2009 Intellimarker.

On Nov. 19, VMG Health presented a Webinar titled "Trends in Strategies and Valuation of Physician/Hospital Relationships," which provided participants an overview of current trends regarding physician/hospital relationships, including a discussion of how healthcare reform and possible changes in reimbursements…

Here are eight statistics about a surgery center's operating expenses per operating room, according to VMG Health's 2009 Intellimarker.