Page 2 - 2017 Summit Newsletter

Disruptive Innovations and Business Trends in Imaging
1. Changes in Payer Environment
2. Reimbursement Changes
- More Aggressive Cost Savings - Moves by Payers
3. Consumer Era in Healthcare
4. Health System Consolidation: Outpatient Imaging, Physician Practice, Radiology Practice
5. Disruptive Contracting Moves by Large Health Systems
6. New Business Models
7. Growth of Investor Capital
8. Artificial Intelligence: Opportunity or Threat
As more people are insured under the ACA and Medicare Advantage continues to expand at a record growth rate, the payer environment and reimbursement rates will remain in flux. Consumers are hastening the wave of change toward value as they are shouldering more of the cost of their health care, but we still have a long way to go regarding consumers driving health care costs.
Regulations that stipulate final reads and interpretations must be made in the US helps the radiology industry.
Educating ourselves is key, everything from AI to MACRA is going to impact how our role in the value chain of healthcare expands or contracts.
Part of preparing and educating ourselves involves looking for new partnerships with payers. The payer side of healthcare offers lots of opportunities, not just negative change. New bonus contracts are being constructed nationwide. Partnerships with private equity players are also expanding. As the shift toward outpatient policy continues, radiologists have more avenues to enter the market-place and the larger policy discussions.
“Hospital and health system M&A activity has doubled
since 2009.”
—Worth Saunders, CEO Canopy Partners
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