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20 anesthesia deals involving outpatient surgery
centers and health systems in 2021
By Marcus Robertson
M
elville, N.Y.-based North American
Partners in Anesthesia and Irving,
Texas-based NorthStar Anesthesia
formed the most health system and ASC
partnerships in 2021, with eight apiece.
Here are all 20 partnerships between anes-
thesia companies and ASCs or health systems
Becker's ASC Review covered in 2021:
1. NorthStar Anesthesia completed its transi-
tion to provide services to seven Southfield,
Mich.-based Beaumont Health facilities.
2. North American Partners in Anesthesia
partnered with Atlanta-based Piedmont Or-
thopedics-OrthoAtlanta to deliver anesthesia
services to an ASC in Fayetteville, Ga.
3. North American Partners in Anesthesia
entered into a clinical partnership with Law-
rence (Mass.) General Hospital, the company
announced Jan. 19.
4. Anesthesia Associates of Lancaster (Pa.)
joined Lancaster General Health Physicians,
pennlive.com reported Jan. 29.
5. U.S. Anesthesia Partners reached a three-
year deal with Cigna HealthCare of Florida
to keep its nearly 600 physicians in network
with Cigna's Florida members, the practice
announced Feb. 10.
6. NorthStar Anesthesia began providing
services Feb. 1 at Baptist Health Hardin in
Elizabethtown, Ky.
7. North American Partners in Anesthe-
sia expanded anesthesia services to more
Virginia patients through its partnership with
Bon Secours-Richmond (Va.), a subsidiary of
Bon Secours Mercy Health, in April.
8-10. NorthStar Anesthesia expanded to
serve Wilmington, Del.-based Saint Fran-
cis Healthcare, a member of Trinity Health
System; the Great Falls (Mont.) Clinic and
Lubbock (Texas) Heart and Surgical Hospital,
according to an April 7 release.
11. North American Partners in Anesthesia
expanded its Illinois reach through a part-
nership with Sinai Chicago, according to a
May 18 release.
12. North American Partners in Anesthesia
expanded its services to Union (N.J.) Surgery
Center, part of Atlantic Health System's Over-
look Medical Center-Union Campus.
13. North American Partners in Anesthesia
partnered with Premiere Surgical Center to
serve a new ASC in Erie, Pa., according to a
May 26 news release.
14. North American Partners in Anesthesia
and Wilmington (N.C.) Eye Surgery Center
struck an agreement to serve a new ASC, ac-
cording to a June 21 news release.
15. North American Partners in Anesthe-
sia partnered with Maple Lawn Surgery
Center in Fulton, Md., according to a July
15 news release.
16. Baton Rouge, La.-based anesthesia man-
agement company DPI Anesthesia partnered
with AllSpine Laser and Surgery Center, a
DPI anesthesiologist said July 28.
17. Billings (Mont.) Clinic contracted with
Gallatin Valley Anesthesia Associates to
provide services at its new ASC that will open
in mid-2022, the Bozeman Daily Chronicle
reported Dec. 9.
18-20. NorthStar Anesthesia expanded its
services with three health systems: Morgan-
town, W.Va.-based Mon Health; Coving-
ton, Ga.-based Piedmont Healthcare; and
Arlington-based Texas Health Resources, the
company said Oct. 12. n
How HCA Healthcare is fueling its outpatient
growth: 5 notes
By Patsy Newitt
N
ashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare reported
strong growth in outpatient revenue and profit in
the third quarter of 2021.
Here are five notes on the company's outpatient strategy:
1. Outpatient revenue was 34.1 percent of all patient rev-
enue for the quarter. The company reported a 7.2 percent
increase in outpatient surgery cases in the third quarter
from the same period last year.
2. The company ended the third quarter on Sept. 30 with
123 freestanding outpatient surgery centers. In October,
HCA acquired both Anchorage-based Alaska Surgery Cen-
ter and Provo-based Central Utah Surgical Center.
3. "Our development pipeline of new outpatient facilities
is robust, and we fueled that with investment," CEO Sam
Hazen said in an Oct. 22 earnings call transcribed by The
Motley Fool. "We have a strong pipeline of projects that
will come online in 2022 and 2023 that are connected
to both our hospital platform as well as our outpa-
tient platform."
4. According to Mr. Hazen, the company has seen roughly
10 to 12 ASCs that began service in 2021. The company
has also seen a "natural lift in acuity," partly strategic and
partly from outpatient migration, he said.
5. For the first three quarters of 2021, the company
reported a 17.9 percent increase in outpatient surgery
cases, to 742,527. n
