Surgery Partners spent just under $250 million to acquire ASCs last year, and is planning for more in 2023.

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McLaren St. Luke's in Maumee, Ohio, said it will cease all outpatient services by mid-May. 

Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare, parent company of ASC chain United Surgical Partners International, is focusing on ASCs to fuel its growth. 

A medical office portfolio housing a 15-physician practice has sold for $20 million, the acquisition's seller, Capital Real Estate Group's U.S. Healthcare Investment Sales practice said in a March 6 news release shared with Becker's. 

VillageMD, a company majority owned by Walgreens, has acquired a 30-location physician group. 

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Dallas-based United Surgical Partners International, Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare, Deerfield, Ill.-based SCA Health and Brentwood, Tenn.-based Surgery Partners are four of the largest ASC operators in the country. 

A medical office building in Upper Macungie Township, Pa., was sold for $69.58 million, The Morning Call reported March 1.

Dallas-based United Surgical Partners International, the largest ASC chain in the U.S. and subsidiary of Tenet Healthcare, employs more than 11,000 physicians. 

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Ground has been broken on a 60,000-square-foot medical office building — the Frisco Medical Pavilion II, in Frisco, Texas, according to a Feb. 23 report from REJournals.

Major healthcare transactions have ramped up in recent weeks with companies like Optum, Amazon and CVS Health making or announcing multimillion-dollar acquisitions. 

An ASC in Houston was purchased by a group of local physicians and medical professionals, REjournals reported Feb. 23.

New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health is heavily expanding its outpatient portfolio to increase market share, CEO Michael Dowling told Becker's Hospital Review.

In the last few years, Walgreens Boots Alliance has shifted its focus from retail pharmacies to physicians. 

A third of hospital revenue is shifting to ASCs, office-based labs and other outpatient sites, according to JLL's "Healthcare and Medical Office Perspective" report.

Verax Daniels, an entity related to Verax Investments owned by Orlando-based neurosurgeon Ravi Gandhi, MD, and urologist Javier Miller, MD, has acquired 3.6 acres of vacant property in Winter Garden, Fla., for $1.8 million, its seventh medical office building-related acquisition in the last year, according to a Feb. 22 report from the Orlando Business Journal. 

A 3,400-square-foot medical office building in Hamilton, N.J., has been sold by Fennelly Associates, according to a Feb. 22 report from roi-nj.com.