2012’s Top 20 Imaging-center Chains: Third Annual Report

Despite serious reimbursement pressure, the imaging-center market appears to be on the move again, adding 131 sites as of the first quarter of 2012. While this...

Provider-based Restructuring: Approach With Caution

Freestanding imaging has come under fire in recent years, with a series of Medicare Physician Fee Schedule reimbursement cuts decimating revenue. Hospital-based imaging, on...

Users’ Guide: Due Diligence for Acquisitions

While there are many motivations to pursue an acquisition candidate, all acquirers share a common goal: increasing their net worth. The buyer evaluates opportunities...

The Top 20 Imaging-center Chains

It seems clear that the number of US imaging centers has stopped expanding, and that imaging-center chains are no longer as eager to snap...

Why Hospitals Buy Imaging Centers

While hospitals have always been significant players in the market for freestanding imaging centers, volume for hospitals purchasing all or part of the ownership...

Operating an Imaging-center Chain in the Postapocalyptic Era

It began with the DRA, and ever since, CMS and Congress have set upon outpatient imaging like dogs on a bone, culminating in a...

The Reconsolidation of Imaging Centers

Elliott Jeter, CFA, CPA/ABV

Significant market trends, over the past few years, have affected the competitive environment between hospitals and physician-owned freestanding imaging...

Finding Value in Imaging-center Valuations

After unprecedented growth over the past two decades, freestanding imaging providers have found the past few years challenging. Increased regulatory oversight, negative reimbursement changes,...

Why Design Matters in Imaging

It’s design that can make patients choose one imaging provider over another, according to Morris A. Stein, FAIA, FACHA. At the architecture/engineering...

Do Market Opportunities Remain in Outpatient Imaging?

Attractive opportunities remain in outpatient imaging, but they are highly market specific

In the post-Deficit Reduction Act (DRA) era, many current and...

Chris Winkle: Taking MedQuest In-House

Last August, the news that Novant Health, Inc, Winston-Salem, NC, had offered $45 million (with an additional performance-based contingency of $35 million and the assumption of...

Imaging Center Valuation: What is Your Facility Worth?

While recent imaging center deals indicate valuations all over the board, there are reasons why some centers command top dollar and others reflect fire-sale...

How Managed Care Targets Imaging Centers—and How to Fight Back

With the cost of advanced imaging technology always on the rise and reimbursement continually declining, now, more than ever, it is crucial that imaging...

2007 Medical Imaging Symposium: Consolidation Underway

Increased imaging center transactional activity, changes in health care regulatory law, increased scrutiny of self referral, and a full year under the Deficit Reduction...

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Using Analytics to Achieve Strategic Goals: Quantum Imaging & Therapeutic Associates

For many years, hospitals and physician practices have engaged with payors in a little game we play in a free market society called “negotiation.” This game enables the players to use whatever tools and stratagems they possess to leverage as good a price possible for their services/business in an increasingly price-conscious marketplace. On the provider side, good means high, and on the payor side, good means low. Providers might negotiate from a position