CHAPTER 12

The Valuation of Outpatient Enterprises

12.1 Overview of Valuation Considerations Pertinent to Outpatient Enterprises

12.2 Professional Practices

12.2.1 Physician Professional Practices

12.2.2 Allied Health Practices

12.2.3 Nonphysician Providers

12.3 Freestanding Outpatient Ambulatory Enterprises

12.3.1 Types of Freestanding Outpatient Ambulatory Enterprises

12.3.2 Current and Future Trends: Regulatory, Reimbursement, Competition, Technology

12.3.3 Value Drivers: Freestanding Outpatient Enterprises

12.3.4 Other Pertinent Valuation Considerations: Freestanding Outpatient Enterprises

12.3.5 Isolated ASTC-Related Valuation Considerations

12.4 Home Health and Hospice Enterprises

12.4.1 Current and Future Trends: Regulatory, Reimbursement, Competition, Technology

12.4.2 Value Drivers: Home Health Enterprises

12.5 Conclusion

12.6 Key Sources

12.7 Acronyms

As demand for healthcare services continues to grow, the site of service at which these services are performed is experiencing a simultaneous transformation from the inpatient (e.g., hospital) setting to the out-patient setting.1 This transformation is being driven by such factors as (1) technological advancements, (2) an increasingly consumer-driven and convenience-driven healthcare delivery environment, (3) pressure from payors and potent demand, and (4) the entrance and diversification of new and different outpatient enterprises (see Chapter 4, “Competition,” and Chapter 5, “Technology”). Each of the outpatient enterprises ...

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