How large does a practice need to be to sustain an outpatient cath lab?
There is no hard and fast rule about how many cardiologists are necessary to generate sufficient volume to make an outpatient lab financially viable. As a guideline, a practice with less than 7 cardiologists is less likely to generate a sufficient number of cases. CSA can perform a free assessment of your practice to evaluate if it can generate enough patients to support your own cath lab. facility. Alternately, CSA can facilitate the cooperation of one or more other groups in your market to create a critical mass to support a cath lab.
