Roughly a third of the nation’s rural hospitals — 720 in all — are at risk of closing, according to a report from the Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform. The findings begs a familiar question among ASC leaders:…
ASC Transactions & Valuation Issues
Orthopedics and plastic surgery have traded the top two spots in Medscape’s annual Physician Compensation Report every year since 2021, with orthopedics seeing compensation climb by more than $80,000 over that span. Orthopedic surgeons now command an average of $611,000…
Hospital transactions continued an upward swing in the first quarter of 2026, according to Kaufman Hall’s M&A quarterly activity report released April 9. The 22 announced transactions were a five-year high for first quarters and the report noted “signs of…
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…