Category: ASC Transactions and Valuation Issues

Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare, parent company of United Surgical Partners International,  is turning its focus to ASCs as it rapidly sells hospitals. 

Here are five recent moves by ASC giant HCA Healthcare. 

A medical office building in Winston-Salem, N.C., has sold for $4.7 million, according to an Aug. 14 report from the Winston-Salem Journal.

Here are five disruptions shaking up health systems this year:

Optum’s ASC arm, SCA Health, quietly purchased National Cardiovascular Partners from Fresenius Medical Care in December. 

Nashville, Tenn.-based Rural Healthcare Group, part of private equity firm Kinderhook Industries, agreed to acquire financially troubled Steward Health Care’s 175-physician group for $245 million in cash. 

Leawood, Kan.-based ASC chain and healthcare services company ValueHealth has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, according to court documents obtained by Becker’s. 

A medical office building in Cincinnati has sold for $40 million, the region’s most expensive publicly disclosed office transaction of the year, according to an Aug. 12 report from the Cincinnati Business Courier.

Joint venture capital deals are heating up in the ASC space. Here are 18 JVC deals so far this year, as reported by Becker’s:

From her time as California’s attorney general, Vice President Kamala Harris became known for her stance against healthcare consolidation. Hospitals, physician groups and payers looking to merge could face an uphill battle if she wins the presidential …