Becker's Healthcare July 10, 2023
Dallas-based United Surgical Partners International and SCA Health are two of the largest ASC chains, with more than 475 and 320 ASCs, respectively.
Here’s what the two companies have been up to in 2023 so far:
USPI:
1. USPI added three ASCs in the first quarter and completed two post-transaction buy-ups.
2. The company is seeing physicians coming to USPI “wanting to initiate their first orthopedics de novo work in our centers either through new center development or joining existing centers,” CEO Saum Sutaria, MD, said in a first quarter earnings call, indicating demand for ASC-based orthopedics.
3. Tenet Healthcare, parent company of USPI, will pump $250 million into ASC mergers and acquisitions, the company said Feb. 9 during...