American Pain Consortium (APC) announced a partnership with The Pain Treatment Center of the Bluegrass (PTCB), expanding APC’s interventional pain management network into Kentucky’s Bluegrass region. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Founded in 1993, PTCB operates multidisciplinary pain management clinics in Lexington, Somerset and Richmond, Kentucky, providing interventional treatments for chronic and acute pain conditions. It also offers services including epidural steroid injections, radiofrequency ablation, spinal cord and peripheral nerve stimulation, physical rehabilitation, behavioral health support and medication management.
The transaction continues consolidation activity within the outpatient pain management sector, where physician-led platforms are expanding regional density and integrating ancillary services.
APC is an interventional pain management practice, formed by the combination of certain assets of Shadeland Anesthesia & Pain Associates, Inc., the Center for Special Surgery, LLC and the Center for Southside Surgery. Providers at APC focus on managing acute and chronic pain with treatments including nerve blocks, injections, neuromodulation and implants, physical therapy, psychological counseling, medication management and compliance monitoring.
According to data in the LevinPro HC database, there have been 198 Physician Medical Group transactions announced since the start of 2026, and five in the pain management specialty. There were nine pain management transactions reported throughout 2025.
