The real estate of Fort Myers, Fla.-based Gladiolus Surgery Center has sold for $4.6 million, Business Observer Florida reported Feb. 19. Prime Healthcare Properties, a Dallas-based real estate investment firm, purchased the 7,315-square-foot building. CBRE, who represented Prime in the…
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Greenville, S.C.-based Prisma Health and Atlas Healthcare Partners have formed a joint venture to develop and operate more than 15 ASCs across South Carolina, southeastern Tennessee and surrounding regions, according to a Feb. 19 news release. The partnership will combine…
A former sales director for the Northeast region of a mobile medical diagnostics company that performed transcranial doppler scans was sentenced for conspiring to offer and pay kickbacks to physicians in exchange for ordering medically unnecessary brain scans, according to…
Physicians told Becker’s that the next major shift in medicine won’t be a new device or breakthrough drug, but the accelerating shift from fee-for-service to value-based purchasing. Cost pressures, patient frustration and employer fatigue are converging in ways that may…
Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health is accelerating its outpatient strategy as it builds out a 25-center ASC network designed to shift volume out of hospitals and closer to patients. Leslie Barrett, BSN, RN, senior vice president of ambulatory surgery strategy and…
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Bethany Cataldi, DO, Chesterton, Ind., was sentenced to 97 months imprisonment after pleading guilty to a $50 million healthcare fraud scheme, according to a Feb. 19 news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Indiana. What…
There were 148 deals involving outpatient care providers in 2025, including 119 add-on acquisitions, seven leveraged buyouts and 22 growth or expansion investments, according to a report from the Private Equity Stakeholder Project. Dermatology and eye care led all outpatient…
Deerfield, Ill.-based SCA Health, Optum’s ASC arm, is one of the largest ASC operators in the country and has steadily expanded its footprint through joint ventures with hospitals and health systems. As of late 2024, Optum’s subsidiaries include 423 ASCs,…
ASC leaders say the pressure facing independent centers isn’t limited to reimbursement cuts, and that payer tactics that restrict network access and redirect referrals are gradually shrinking surgical volume. Andrew Lovewell, CEO of Columbia (Mo.) Orthopaedic Group, told Becker’s that…
Robotic-assisted technology is poised to reshape how orthopedic cases move into ASCs, particularly as precision tools expand beyond hips and knees and into more complex procedures such as shoulder replacements. Robotics adoption is already strong in knees: use in total…