Outlook for Outpatient Imaging Growth

Executive Briefing for Hospital Executives and Radiology Leaders

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Topics: Imaging, Service Lines, Service Line Growth, Volume Growth, Strategy

Executive Summary

Ten considerations for guiding future outpatient imaging strategy

  • Non-hospitals bearing the brunt of payment crackdown
  • Hospital medicare imaging payment safe for now
  • Imaging center fortunes depends on commercial copycats
  • Outpatient market to remain as competitive as ever
  • Outpatient volumes more volatile
  • Superior service required to weather volume softening
  • Hospitals pressured on price
  • Emerging mandate to manage appropriateness
  • Limited volume gains with coverage expansion
  • New payment models to further pressure utilization

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