The number of Medicare-certified ASCs in the U.S. grew from roughly 6,100 to 6,468 between December 2022 and March 2025, according to data from the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association. But amid that national growth there is a quieter trend of…
New ASC Development
Mankato (Minn.) Eye Doctors has opened MED Surgical Suites on Adams Street in Mankato after years of planning, design and collaboration, Mankato Free Press reported June 23. Physician partners Emily Birkholz, MD, and Nathan Carpenter, MD said the center was…
University of Michigan Health-Sparrow has broken ground on a $60 million surgery center in Lansing, Mich., NBC-affiliate WILX 10 reported June 22. The new facility will add operating rooms and a new MRI unit to the health system’s surgical capacity…
Tulsa, Okla.-based Hillcrest Hospital South cut the ribbon on an outpatient surgery center in Tulsa, according to a June 17 report from ABC affiliate KTUL. The 17,000-square-foot facility aims to increase efficiency for specialty outpatient services. The center includes four…
SCA Health, Englewood Health and physician partners have cut the ribbon on Precision Surgery Center of Englewood Cliffs (N.J.), according to a June 16 report from New Jersey Business Magazine. The 20,000-square-foot ASC includes four operating rooms and two procedure…
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Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health opened the doors June 16 to Scotts Hill Medical Center, a $294 million, 66-bed surgical hospital straddling the Pender and New Hanover county border near Wilmington, N.C., Wilmington Biz reported June 12. The development is one…
Cataract surgery accounts for 18% of all ASC procedure volume and has generated more Medicare savings than any other single procedure in the ambulatory setting, but it took decades to get there. Cardiac catheterization and percutaneous laminectomy are starting from…
The Green Mountain Care Board has unanimously approved a freestanding multispeciality surgery center in Hartford, Vt., according to a June 11 report from Vermont Public. The Upper Valley Surgery Center will have four operating rooms and provide services including orthopedic,…
Cleveland Clinic is planning a four-story outpatient care facility in Brecksville, Ohio. The 60,000-square-foot center will include 108 exam rooms and provide services including primary care, obstetrics and gynecology, vascular surgery, gastroenterology, orthopedics, endocrinology, rheumatology and nephrology, according to a…
With no certificate-of-need law, a fast-growing population and a regulatory environment that has historically favored outpatient development, Texas is one of the most active ASC markets in the country Here is where things stand. 1. Texas is a free-market ASC…