The Value of Physician-Provided Cardiovascular Imaging
The patient also benefits, as the cost of imaging at the doctor’s office is a small fraction of what they’d typically pay to visit a hospital.
Providing patients with quality care is a lesson in navigating the barriers of time, money, and hassle for patients and healthcare providers. Delays, costly testing, and unnecessary exposure to further health issues can interfere with effective patient treatment. A physician or healthcare team leaps into the future by providing in-house cardiovascular imaging and eliminating common treatment barriers.
For Physicians
Instead of sending patients to the hospital for imaging, a physician can offer top-quality in-house imaging from their office via a mobile ultrasound service. Physicians in Pensacola with two or more patients requiring ultrasound imaging can schedule patients to visit their offices in half-hour increments for testing. In addition to convenience for their patients, the physician receives the test results quickly, usually within 24 hours, thereby reducing wait times and streamlining the entire treatment process.
The benefits to the physician include an office visit fee, a follow-up office visit fee, and immediate test results without subjecting their patients to the hospital imaging process. A physician can temporarily make an exam room available for the imaging team without permanently dedicating the space. Patients credit physicians who arrange for their patients to receive in-house imaging as being progressive, professional, and sensitive to a patient’s needs and fears.
The Patient
The patient also benefits, as the cost of imaging at the doctor’s office is a small fraction of what they’d typically pay to visit a hospital. Alleviating the high cost of in-hospital testing allows patients to undergo necessary tests without financial distress. The hospital setting can also expose patients to common pathogens completely avoided by in-office testing, such as c. Diff, MRSA, Covid, Staph, Pseudomonas, and more.
Further, the patients reluctant to forgo the comfort of familiarity greatly benefit as they are already familiar with the office setting and staff and aren’t required to complete a possibly lengthy check-in process with strangers. While the conditions requiring ultrasound imaging can sometimes be unnerving, the patient who receives in-house imaging knows the results will be available without waiting a month or more for an appointment or results. This time lag can also frequently delay treatment.
How it works
Just two patients are required to schedule the Cardiovascular Specialty Imaging team and make fast, in-house ultrasound imaging a reality. However, a physician can certainly order imaging for more patients if imaging services are warranted. The ability to provide ultrasound imaging is congruent with quality care regarding convenience, cost-effectiveness, fast results, and timely treatment. In an industry where lengthy waiting times and high costs have become the norm, in-house imaging is a refreshing change that offers a practical, fiscally rewarding option for the physician and better patient care.
Why it works
As technology advances, the optimal use of available tools is vital in timely and progressive advances in modern healthcare. Streamlining testing and treatment provides impressively fast results, online access, archived results, and an impressive competitive edge for physicians who want to offer patients more without requiring an increase in staff or equipment purchases.
Cardiovascular Speciality Imaging offers various ultrasound services and mobile Ultrasound Services to physicians, imaging centers, hospitals, and nursing facilities throughout Northwest Florida. Call us at (844)EZSCANS.
