Anaheim-based Alliance Imaging Inc., a provider of medical scanning services to hospitals and doctors offices, is paying $36 million for eight cancer treatment centers.
Alliance is buying the centers, in the South and Central part of the country, from Bethesda Resources Inc., a unit of New York’s Sonix Medical Resources Inc. The company is taking on some Bethesda debt as part of the deal.
It expects the centers to generate about $14 million a year in revenue.
Alliance is projected to have sales of $445 million this year.
The move expands Alliance’s business providing cancer treatment. The bulk of the company’s sales come from scanning centers for hospitals, doctors’ offices and universities, as well as trucks offering medical scanning services that visit hospitals and other healthcare providers.
The company has been looking to its Alliance Oncology unit to spur growth as its core business struggles with hospitals taking over scanning services themselves and falling government reimbursement for Alliance’s services.
