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Category: ASC
Evolutionary psychologists say that the reason we see a stick on the trail ahead of us as a snake…
Listen while Mark discusses a hospital’s announcement that it’s closing down its physician joint venture ASC. Was it really their decision? Or have the physician partners realized that they no longer need the hospital?
Earlier this year, I read a news piece on a health system in Memphis called Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare that had announced that it would be closing the joint venture ASC that it operates in concert with over one hundred physician partners.
ASCs can be great investments for physicians. Oh, as long as they are real.
As more physicians rush to invest in ASCs, unscrupulous facility promoters/managers scheme to separate physician investors from their money.
Sure, you can buy a new 2019 Bentley Continental GTC for around $300,000. But you can pick up a gently used 2016 model for around half the price. But did you know that the same bargain can be had on a slightly used ambulatory surgery center? Last month, two facilities owned 51% by Surgical Care […]
The bottom line for you, as an ASC investor, is to carefully investigate the deal, and its promoters, on the way in, and on a periodic basis after the investment is made.
Yes, 4.89 billion reasons for you, if you are a physician who owns or is thinking about owning a surgery center (“ASC”). And, yes, each of them is green. Green as in a dollar bill.
Was it really their decision? Or have the physician partners realized that they no longer need the hospital?