Tackling Rising Costs in Imaging Centers

Where the money actually goes in an outpatient imaging center

In this Voices of Experience webinar, Dianne Keen is joined by four operators for a session on rising costs in outpatient imaging: Angie Gilbert, Regional VP for the Medical Imaging Group at USPI; Linda Wilgus, Executive Director at Northwest Radiology Network; Dr. John Vizzuso, President and CEO at Radiology Matters; and Raif Erim, EVP at Regents Health Resources. The conversation is framed around outpatient centers, and the panel is explicit that most of it applies to other practice models too.

They start with cost structure, because everything downstream depends on it: what it actually costs to deliver a service, and what changes in a payer conversation once you can answer that. From there they work through holding patient experience steady while cutting expense, knowing when a team has looked at its own operation for so long that it has stopped seeing it, and where advice that fits a regional private practice stops fitting a national division.