Novant Health has completed its acquisition of UCI Medical Affiliates, Inc. (UCI), previously owned by BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina. The deal includes 52 Doctors Care urgent care clinics and 20 Progressive Physical Therapy clinics. UCI also provides nonmedical management and administrative services specifically for urgent care and physical therapy operators. Charlotte-based Novant has 3 hospitals in South Carolina, so the urgent care additions will no doubt offer some new referral source potential.
Staying the course: Novant decided to abandon its $320 million acquisition of 2 North Carolina hospitals from Community Health Systems after an appellate court granted the Federal Trade Commission an emergency injunction to prevent the deal from moving forward until an appeal was addressed, according to Becker’s. The commission was seeking additional information to evaluate the scope of market consolidation that would have resulted from the deal. In North Carolina, Novant operates an urgent care joint venture with GoHealth that includes 33 centers.