Carolina Coast Surgery Center

What Carolina Coast Surgery Center does

Carolina Coast Surgery Center is a 100% physician-owned ambulatory surgery center (ASC) located in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, specializing in outpatient orthopedic surgery, total joint replacement, pain management, spine surgery, podiatry, and general surgery. The center operates from a 23,000-square-foot facility at 3545 Hwy 17 Bypass, Suite 100, co-located with OrthoSC and Physical Therapy services on the second floor, creating an integrated musculoskeletal care environment. Founded in 2011, the center serves the Murrells Inlet community and surrounding areas, accredited by the AAAHC and recognized with the APEX Quality Award for patient satisfaction. The leadership team includes CEO/Administrator Jana Crosby RN, Medical Director Dr. Todd Cook, and Business Office Manager Tonya Ropp.

The business generates revenue through facility fees for outpatient surgical procedures billed to patients and their insurance companies, including Medicare and Medicaid. The center's core economic proposition is structural cost advantage: procedures are priced approximately 45% below equivalent hospital outpatient department rates, translating to lower co-pays for patients and lower premiums for payers. Patient-facing technology includes One Medical Passport for online pre-registration (20-25 minute completion time), CareCredit for healthcare financing, and Patientco Patient Wallet for secure online bill payment. The facility operates Monday through Thursday 7am-5pm and Friday 7am-2pm.

Carolina Coast Surgery Center operates as a strategic partner within the SCA Health network, a national surgical solutions provider operating 200+ surgical facilities nationwide, which provides clinical quality standards, operational best practices, and back-office infrastructure. Ownership rests with eight physicians: Erkan Alci MD, Brian Blair MD, Michael Bohan MD, Benjamin Catoe DO, Todd Cook MD, Christopher Crosby DPM, Tyler Noble MD, and Andrew Putman MD, with no venture capital, private equity, or public ownership indicated. Patient acquisition relies primarily on physician referrals, supplemented by the SCA Health website and social media presence.

Name

Carolina Coast Surgery Center

Legal name

Carolina Coast Surgery Center

Website

https://carolinacoastsc.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2011

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Carolina Coast Surgery Center is a physician-owned ambulatory surgery center in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, providing outpatient orthopedic, pain management, spine, podiatric, and general surgical services to local patients via physician referrals within the SCA Health network.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Ambulatory Surgery Services

NAICS

Freestanding Ambulatory Surgical and Emergency Centers (621493), Outpatient Care Centers (6214), Offices of Physicians (62111), Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists) (621111)

SIC

Services-Specialty Outpatient Facilities, Nec (8093), Services-Offices & Clinics Of Doctors Of Medicine (8011)

akta.pro primary industry

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

akta.pro secondary industries

Orthopedic & Spine Surgery Centers (HLAFAIAG), Pain Management & Interventional Procedure Centers (HLAFAIAH), Podiatry & Foot/Ankle Surgery Centers (HLAFAIAL)

Keywords

• Ambulatory surgery services
• Outpatient surgical care
• Orthopedic surgery center
• Pain management procedures
• Same-day surgery

Headquarters

HQ city

Murrells Inlet

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Surgical Facility Services: The surgery center charges a facility fee for surgical procedures performed at the center. Revenue is generated through billing patients and their insurance companies for outpatient surgical services including pre-operative care, the surgical procedure, and post-operative recovery. The center accepts most major insurance plans including Medicare and Medicaid.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Carolina Coast Surgery Center operates a 23,000 square foot ambulatory surgery center (ASC) in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, providing same-day outpatient surgical care across multiple specialties. Services include total joint replacement (hip, knee, shoulder), elbow and wrist surgery, foot and ankle surgery, hand surgery, spine surgery, general surgery, and pain management procedures. As a 100% physician-owned facility accredited by the AAAHC and operating within the SCA Health network, the center delivers same-day surgical services as a lower-cost alternative to hospital outpatient care.

Product overview

Carolina Coast Surgery Center operates as a single ambulatory surgery center (ASC) offering same-day surgical care across multiple specialties including orthopedic surgery, spine surgery, pain management, podiatry, and general surgery. The center is 100% physician-owned and managed under the SCA Health network. Patient-facing digital services include One Medical Passport for online pre-registration, CareCredit for healthcare financing, and Patientco Patient Wallet for online bill payment. The 23,000 square foot facility is co-located with OrthoSC and Physical Therapy services on the second floor.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Carolina Coast Surgery Center (Outpatient Orthopedic & Surgical Services) Same-day outpatient surgical care across total joint replacement (hip, knee, shoulder), elbow and wrist surgery, foot and ankle surgery, hand surgery, spine surgery, general surgery, and pain management procedures. Targeted at patients in Murrells Inlet and surrounding areas who have been referred by affiliated orthopedic surgeons, pain management specialists, and podiatrists, and who have insurance coverage (most major plans, Medicare, and Medicaid accepted).

Quantifiable outcome

• Approximately 45% cost savings compared to hospital procedures
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core and supporting.

• SCA HealthcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSCA Health is a national surgical solutions provider and the parent organization/partner of Carolina Coast Surgery Center. With 200+ surgical facilities across the country, SCA Health provides strategic partnership to physicians, offering industry expertise and enhanced long-term results. The center operates under SCA Health's clinical quality standards, convenience focus, and cost savings approach.
• CareCreditsupportingOthersCareCredit is a healthcare credit card used by patients to finance medical procedures. The surgery center accepts CareCredit for patient payments and encourages patients to pre-apply before their surgery date.
• PatientcosupportingTechnology or IntegrationPatientco provides the online bill payment platform used by the surgery center for patients to securely pay their facility bills through the Patient Wallet portal.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• SCA Health: National surgical solutions provider that operates 200+ ambulatory surgery facilities and is the strategic parent/partner of Carolina Coast. Comparable as the directly affiliated network that defines the company's operating standards, back-office, and expansion optionality.
• Tenet Healthcare: Multi-state hospital and outpatient operator that owns USPI, the largest U.S. ASC platform. Comparable to Carolina Coast as an integrated hospital-ASC competitor that combines physician referral leverage with outpatient facility economics.
• HCA Healthcare: Large for-profit hospital system that has aggressively acquired and built outpatient surgery capacity to defend share against independent ASCs. Comparable as a competitor on both facility cost and surgeon employment/employment-adjacent models.

Regional players

• EmergeOrtho: Large physician-owned orthopedic group in the Carolinas with in-office ancillary services, surgery centers, and PT. Comparable to Carolina Coast as an orthopedic-focused ASC competitor operating in overlapping Southeast geographies with similar physician-ownership economics.
• Prisma Health: Major South Carolina not-for-profit health system with hospitals and outpatient facilities serving the same coastal/grand strand region as Carolina Coast. Comparable as the dominant regional inpatient system that competes for outpatient surgical referrals.
• OrthoCarolina: Independent orthopedic specialty practice with multiple locations across North and South Carolina offering surgery, sports medicine, and therapy services. Comparable as a multi-specialty orthopedic competitor in the Carolinas that competes for the same referring physicians and joint-replacement volume.

Direct peers

• Surgery Partners: National operator of short-stay surgery centers and hospitals with a large ASC footprint concentrated in orthopedics, GI, and pain management. Comparable to Carolina Coast as a multi-specialty ASC operator targeting outpatient migration of surgical cases.
• United Surgical Partners International (USPI): Largest ASC platform in the U.S., operating hundreds of multi-specialty ambulatory surgery centers often partnered with physicians and health systems. Highly comparable business model to Carolina Coast—physician-partnered, multi-specialty outpatient surgical care—and the most relevant scale peer.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/SCA__Health
• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCPuxBOssNMXrmjFj5WvpA7Q
• Facebookfacebook.com/1721315751437729
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/carolina-coast-surgery-center

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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