Private equity & ASCs: 5 updates to know

Here are five private equity updates since Feb. 22:

1. Private equity-backed Capitol Pain Institute acquired three practices and one ASC in Colorado. 
2. United Digestive has partnered with private equity firm Kohlberg & Company. 
3. Although private equity deal activity in the ASC industry has remained relatively consistent over the last six years, investors have changed their spending patterns in response to the changing scope of care, according to a report by healthcare finance company VMG Health.  
4. Private equity's interest in ASCs and physicians over the last decade has helped spur a migration of procedures to the outpatient setting, and cardiology could be the next target. 
5. Although the supply of orthopedic surgeons in the U.S. is low, the specialty remains attractive for private equity investors, according to a report in the Journal of Orthopaedic Experience & Innovation.