Across six specialties, 4.9 percent of physicians worked in private equity-backed practices in 2019, according to a study published in JAMA Health Forum.

Increasing consolidation and COVID-19 have accelerated private equity's interest in ASCs. 

Here are four private equity updates since July 12 that ASC leaders should keep an eye on:

MetroDerm has partnered with United Derm Partners, a private equity-backed dermatology platform and portfolio company of Frazier Healthcare Partners.

Here are five private equity updates since June 21:

Increasingly, private equity (PE) investors see physician practice management (PPM) and ASCs as attractive investment opportunities. This is because ASCs are well positioned to capitalize on some of the most important trends in healthcare, such as value-based care (VBC).

An affiliate of Capitol Pain Institute, an interventional pain management provider, and Iron Path Capital, a private equity firm, partnered to create a physician-led consolidation platform.

Four updates from private equity companies from the last 14 days:

The Federal Trade Commission has taken aim against a private-equity firms' healthcare deal in a move regulators say could spell trouble for other healthcare agreements the agency deems anticompetitive,  The Wall Street Journal reported recently.

Private equity company Excelsior Capital has acquired a medical office building in Kansas City, Kan., for $7 million, the company said June 15. 

Private equity-backed U.S. Urology Partners is adding Ormond Beach-based group practice Florida Urology Center.

Private equity has an increasing influence in the ASC industry as investors see opportunity in ASCs as a high-quality, low-cost site of service. 

Private equity firms have long used ASCs as investment vehicles, which they have wrapped into larger portfolios and marketed to pension funds and other big institutional investors. But across the market, those institutions are reaching their capacity for such investments.

Many physicians who own their ASC and MOB real estate may be considering a sale-leaseback of their ASC/MOB real estate to take advantage of the increase in value of medical real estate.

From Gastro Health's sale to a private equity company to an anesthesia practice acquisition, here are eight private equity deals from the last year that ASC leaders need to know:

Private equity-backed groups are making headway in the ASC industry. Here are six private equity updates from the last month:

Philadelphia-based Premier Orthopaedics is joining with Healthcare Outcomes Performance Co. to integrate partnerships with orthopedic practices, physicians, health systems and payers in the region.

Private equity investment has planted roots in the healthcare space, buying private practices and growing consolidated platforms.

CMS and commercial payers continue to push procedures to ASCs, where care can be provided at a lower cost, and private equity investment in surgery centers is increasing to capitalize on this evolving dynamic.

Large physician groups partnering with private equity firms to form managed service organizations have become more common over the last five years.