Ambulatory Surgery Centers are becoming one of the most important settings for gastrointestinal endoscopy in the United States. Growing colorectal cancer screening demand and the continued migration of elective procedures away from hospital outpatient departments are creating significant opportunities for ASCs—but increasing volume does not necessarily mean increasing margin. As reimbursement continues to face downward pressure, the economics of every procedure matter. 

SonoScape Endoscopy is built around a different cost-of-ownership model. Rather than asking an ASC to absorb premium capital acquisition costs and then continue paying for service contracts, repairs, replacement scopes, software infrastructure, and future equipment upgrades, SonoScape provides a more economically sustainable pathway to modern endoscopy. Competitive acquisition costs, lower lifecycle expenses, flexible financing and leasing, cloud-based imaging and reporting, and alternative per-procedure equipment models can allow facilities to align more of their endoscopy expense directly with procedural volume.

For high-volume centers, that equation becomes increasingly important. When reimbursement per procedure is declining, profitability has to come from controlling the cost of delivering each procedure. SonoScape gives ASCs the opportunity to standardize around a modern endoscopy platform while reducing the capital and lifecycle burden traditionally associated with maintaining an endoscopy department.