Beyond its value in patient care, MRI represents a significant capital investment and revenue generation for most facilities. With declining reimbursements and increased marketplace competition, hospitals and imaging facilities can recognize significant financial gains through improvements to MRI suites to improve patient throughput. This only makes sense, optimizing the use and value of your imaging equipment.

Frequently throughput is thought to be in competition with safety, though this doesn’t have to be the case. An imaging facility expertly designed with both patient safety and throughput issues addressed can maximize both.

If your reimbursement rate is $650 per scan, improving throughput by only one patient per week yields nearly $35,000 in additional annual revenue. Make the changes to get one additional patient per day, and you'll see more than $200,000 in increased annual revenue!

If you would like to know how facility design can help you improve patient throughput and increase your revenue potential, take a look at the links to the left and contact us. Frequently the changes to enhance throughput can also improve safety and have life-long financial benefits.