Delaware Outpatient Center for Surgery

What Delaware Outpatient Center for Surgery does

Delaware Outpatient Center for Surgery is a multi-specialty, Medicare-certified ambulatory surgery center (ASC) located at 774 Christiana Road in Newark, Delaware. Founded in 2005 and operating with 11-50 employees, the facility is designed to deliver same-day surgical procedures without overnight hospital stays, serving patients drawn from a four-state region covering Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and New Jersey. The center is operated as a subsidiary of Surgery Partners and is led by CEO/Administrator Nicole Carrington, President Dr. Michael Lobis, Clinical Director Donna Hofmeister, PACU Coordinator Angie Alexander, and OR Manager Holly Anderberg.

The center's core offering is outpatient surgical care across 13+ specialties, including orthopedics, gastroenterology, urology, otolaryngology, ophthalmology, neurosurgery, pain management, plastic surgery, podiatry, vascular surgery, colorectal surgery, gynecology, and radiation oncology. Procedures are performed using state-of-the-art surgical equipment in a facility purpose-built for same-day discharge. Supporting services include patient care navigation (pre-, day-of, and post-surgery guidance), billing and insurance administration via the PatientNotebook portal, and downloadable patient resources. Vendor compliance is handled through ProviderTrust's VendorProof solution.

The business model is transaction-based: the center bills facility fees for outpatient procedures, collects co-payments, unmet deductibles, and co-insurance on the day of surgery, and bills insurance for covered procedures. Uninsured patients are responsible for full surgeon, facility, and anesthesia fees. Patients are not acquired through direct-to-consumer marketing; instead, the center relies on a physician privileges network, with surgeons across multiple specialties credentialed to perform cases there. The value proposition rests on structural ASC cost advantages (approximately 50% lower patient cost versus hospital settings), reduced infection risk, more predictable scheduling, and up to 3X faster OR turnaround than hospitals.

Name

Delaware Outpatient Center for Surgery

Legal name

Delaware Outpatient Center for Surgery

Website

https://dedocs.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2005

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Delaware Outpatient Center for Surgery is a Medicare-certified, multi-specialty ambulatory surgery center in Newark, Delaware, providing same-day outpatient surgical procedures across 13+ specialties to patients in the four-state Mid-Atlantic region. It operates as a Surgery Partners subsidiary.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Ambulatory Surgery Center (Outpatient Surgical Services)

NAICS

Freestanding Ambulatory Surgical and Emergency Centers (621493), Outpatient Care Centers (6214)

SIC

Services-Specialty Outpatient Facilities, Nec (8093), Services-Health Services (8000)

akta.pro primary industry

Multi-Specialty Ambulatory Surgery Centers (ASCs) (HLAFAIAA)

Keywords

• Outpatient surgery services
• Ambulatory surgical care
• Same-day surgical procedures
• Multi-specialty surgery center
• Ambulatory surgery center

Headquarters

HQ city

Newark

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Surgical Facility Fees: The center charges facility fees for outpatient surgical procedures. It collects co-payments, unmet deductibles, and co-insurance amounts on the day of surgery. For uninsured patients, the full surgeon, facility, and anesthesia fees are the patient's responsibility.
2. Insurance Billing: The center bills insurance companies for covered procedures. Co-insurance amounts collected are estimates; final financial obligation is determined by the insurance company.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Delaware Outpatient Center for Surgery is a multi-specialty, Medicare-certified ambulatory surgery center that delivers same-day outpatient surgical procedures across specialties including ENT, orthopedics, ophthalmology, urology, neurosurgery, gastroenterology, podiatry, plastic surgery, pain management, gynecology, colorectal surgery, vascular surgery, and radiation oncology. The center pairs advanced surgical equipment with dedicated clinical staff and patient navigation support to enable discharge-home recovery without overnight hospitalization.

Product overview

Delaware Outpatient Center for Surgery is a multi-specialty outpatient surgical facility that provides same-day surgical procedures across multiple specialties. The core offering is the surgery center itself, where procedures are performed using state-of-the-art technology without requiring overnight hospital stays. The facility offers Surgical Procedures as its primary service, supplemented by Patient Care Navigation Services that guide patients through pre-surgery, day-of-surgery, and post-surgery phases. Additional services include Billing and Insurance Services for financial management and Patient Resources for forms and documentation. The center is Medicare-certified and partners with board-certified physicians across 17 specialty areas including orthopedics, gastroenterology, urology, otolaryngology, ophthalmology, neurosurgery, pain management, plastic surgery, podiatry, vascular surgery, colorectal surgery, gynecology, and radiation oncology.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Same-Day Multi-Specialty Surgical Procedures

Quantifiable outcome

• Patients pay approximately 50% less than the same procedure in a hospital setting
• +2 more outcomes

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Surgery PartnerscoreOthersSurgery Partners is the parent company and operator of Delaware Outpatient Center for Surgery. The center is branded as 'A Surgery Partners Company' and operates under their corporate infrastructure including compliance systems, vendor management (VendorProof), and shared services.
• ProviderTrust (VendorProof)minorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerProviderTrust provides the VendorProof solution for vendor compliance screening and monitoring. The center uses VendorProof to verify vendor information and monitor federal and state databases for exclusion screening as part of healthcare compliance requirements.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Surgery Partners: The publicly-traded parent company of Delaware Outpatient Center for Surgery and one of the largest operators of short-stay surgical facilities in the U.S. Highly comparable as the corporate platform whose network this facility operates within, including shared compliance, billing, and corporate infrastructure.
• HCA Healthcare: Large national hospital system with an expanding outpatient surgery footprint via hospital outpatient departments. Comparable as a major incumbent competing for the same outpatient surgical volumes in the Mid-Atlantic region.
• Encompass Health: Post-acute and outpatient services operator (formerly HealthSouth + Encompass). Adjacent comparable as a diversified outpatient healthcare services operator with shared payer and referral dynamics.
• United Surgical Partners International (USPI): Tenet Healthcare's ambulatory surgery subsidiary and the largest ASC operator in the U.S. Comparable as a multi-specialty ASC platform operating under a strategic parent with shared corporate services and similar payer and surgeon relationships.

Direct peers

• Regent Surgical Health: ASC management and development company partnering with hospitals and physicians to operate multi-specialty ambulatory surgery centers. Directly comparable as a developer/operator of physician-affiliated ASCs of similar size and specialty mix.
• AMSURG: Operates a national network of multi-specialty ambulatory surgery centers with physician partnerships. Directly comparable business model of physician-owned/affiliated ASCs delivering same-day outpatient surgical care.
• SCA Health (Surgery Care Affiliates): A leading national operator of ASCs and surgical hospitals now part of Optum. Directly comparable as a multi-site ASC operator with multi-specialty surgical facilities serving similar physician-referred outpatient cases.
• Constitution Surgery Alliance: Develops and manages multi-specialty ASCs, often in partnership with health systems and physician groups in the Northeast. Comparable operator with similar multi-specialty ASC model and physician-partnership GTM.

Emerging players

• ASD Management: Specializes in the management and development of single- and multi-specialty ASCs, typically smaller-scale facilities. Comparable as an emerging ASC operator targeting community-based outpatient surgery in regional markets.

Others

• U.S. Anesthesia Partners (USAP): National anesthesia services provider that supports ASCs and surgical hospitals with anesthesiology coverage. Comparable as a key service partner supporting the same outpatient surgical care model and surgeon practices.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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