Our company was formed in 1992 for the purpose of developing, acquiring and operating
practice-based ambulatory surgery centers, or ASCs, in partnership with physician practice groups
throughout the United States. An AmSurg surgery center is typically located adjacent to or in
close proximity to the specialty medical practice of a physician group partners office. Each of
our surgery centers provides a narrow range of high volume, lower-risk surgical procedures,
generally in a single specialty, and has been designed with a cost structure that enables us to
charge fees which we believe are generally less than those charged by hospitals and freestanding
multi-specialty outpatient...