Kickoff and intake session
A structured working session to capture your target market, capital position, timeline, and the constraints you're already locked into.
Pre-open advisory
Build the operating model before you sign the lease.
A three-week engagement that answers what to build, what it costs, and what has to happen in what order.
Who it's for
Operators opening a new imaging center who have not yet opened. Our other three engagements all assume a running practice — live patient volume, staff on payroll, receivables to work. This one is for the phase before that.
It's sold on fifteen years of owner-operator experience and two imaging centers built from the ground up. Not a research exercise — the sequence, the trade-offs, and the things that are painful to undo, from someone who has been through it.
The problem
Most centers get designed around the equipment.
Operations get figured out afterward — and by then the expensive decisions are already made.
Modality mix, staffing model, radiologist coverage, RIS/PACS selection, and accreditation sequencing all get decided under deadline pressure, in whatever order they happen to come up.
The costly mistakes in this phase are the ones that are hard to reverse once the lease is signed and the equipment is ordered. A shielding envelope that doesn't fit the modality you add in year two. A RIS contract with a term you can't exit. A staffing model built for volume that arrives on a different curve. None of those are cheap to unwind — and all of them are cheap to think through first.
What's included
Twelve deliverables, one engagement.
Everything below is in scope for the full Launch Blueprint.
Market and payer landscape analysis
Demographics, referral base, competing facilities, and the payer landscape across your target service area.
Modality mix recommendation and volume modeling
Which modalities to open with, which to phase in later, and the volume assumptions sitting behind each one.
Financial pro forma
Revenue build, operating expense structure, staffing cost, break-even analysis, and sensitivity scenarios across a range of assumptions.
Capital equipment strategy
New versus refurbished, the vendor landscape, and how service contracts are typically structured and priced.
Site criteria memorandum
Square footage, power, structural, shielding envelope, and access requirements — written as input for your architect and engineers to work from.
Staffing model and compensation bands
Roles, headcount by phase, and the compensation ranges those roles command in your market.
Radiologist coverage structures
Employed, contracted, teleradiology, and hybrid arrangements — how each is structured and what each tends to cost.
Licensure and accreditation roadmap
The filings and surveys a build like yours typically requires, in sequence, with the lead times each one tends to carry.
RIS/PACS and operating stack selection criteria
How to evaluate the vendors, what to test before signing, and the contract term cautions worth raising early.
On-site working session
One day at an operating imaging center, walking the workflow as it actually runs.
Delivery debrief
Sixty minutes to walk the report and the model end to end, with your questions driving.
Deliverable and timeline
One written report, one financial model.
What you receive
A single written report plus a financial model. Not a slide deck, and not a stack of separate memos — one document your architect, your lender, and your own team can all work from.
How long it takes
Three weeks from kickoff, including the on-site working session and the sixty-minute delivery debrief.
Engagement options
Two ways to run this.
Both are fixed-fee. Scope is set before we start, and it doesn't move mid-engagement.
Full engagement
Launch Blueprint
Fixed fee · scoped during Discovery Call
Timeline · 3 weeks from kickoff
The complete engagement — every item listed above, delivered as a single written report plus a financial model.
Reduced scope
Feasibility Blueprint
Fixed fee · scoped during Discovery Call
Timeline · 2 weeks from kickoff
A go/no-go read: sizing, capital expenditure range, and roadmap. Excludes the full pro forma, staffing and compensation bands, radiologist coverage structures, and RIS/PACS architecture.
Scope boundaries
What this engagement does not include.
Stated plainly rather than buried in an appendix. You retain licensed professionals for each of the following.
- Architectural, structural, civil, or mechanical engineering; construction management or supervision
- Radiation shielding design or medical physics services
- Legal, tax, accounting, or regulatory compliance advice
- Medical, clinical, or diagnostic advice
- Medical coding, billing, or reimbursement compliance
- Real estate brokerage or lease negotiation
- Acting as your agent in payer, vendor, lender, or landlord negotiations
- Software licensing or implementation of any Veredge product — a separate engagement under a separate agreement
On software
No Veredge software is sold, bundled, or promised as part of this engagement. Recommendations are made independent of any Veredge product. If you want to evaluate Veredge software later, that is a separate agreement.
Opening a center? Let's talk before the lease.
Fifteen minutes. Where you are in the process, what's already committed, and whether this engagement is the right fit for the stage you're at.
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All projections, models, and estimates are illustrative planning tools based on stated assumptions. Veredge makes no guarantee or representation as to patient volume, revenue, collections, reimbursement rates, profitability, cost savings, return on investment, financing outcomes, or the timing or granting of any license, certification, accreditation, or payer contract. Actual results will differ. Clients are solely responsible for their own business decisions.