> The really enterprising doctors then setup all sorts of alternative income streams, like building their own clinic with other specialists to which they then r

> The really enterprising doctors then setup all sorts of alternative income streams, like building their own clinic with other specialists to which they then refer you for all procedures. Hah. All of the large diagnostic imaging manufacturers, Siemens, GE, Philips, have formal programs for physicians to help them set up their own imaging practice - they'll help navigate Certificate of Need bureaucracy, they'll provide fantastic financing, they'll help you get set up with practice management. And you, as a physician, if you also own a DI provider (or a stake in one) will go on to refer your patients for DI far more often than other providers do for patients with the same ICD-10 codes. Shocking...