NASDAQ:RDNT RadNet Q2 2025 Earnings Report $68.75 +0.34 (+0.50%) Closing price 04:00 PM EasternExtended Trading$69.03 +0.28 (+0.41%) As of 07:35 PM Eastern Extended trading is trading that happens on electronic markets outside of regular trading hours. This is a fair market value extended hours price provided by Polygon.io. Learn more. ProfileEarnings HistoryForecast RadNet EPS ResultsActual EPS$0.31Consensus EPS $0.17Beat/MissBeat by +$0.14One Year Ago EPS$0.16RadNet Revenue ResultsActual Revenue$498.23 millionExpected Revenue$488.06 millionBeat/MissBeat by +$10.17 millionYoY Revenue Growth+8.40%RadNet Announcement DetailsQuarterQ2 2025Date8/10/2025TimeAfter Market ClosesConference Call DateMonday, August 11, 2025Conference Call Time10:30AM ETConference Call ResourcesConference Call AudioConference Call TranscriptPress Release (8-K)Quarterly Report (10-Q)Earnings HistoryCompany ProfilePowered by RadNet Q2 2025 Earnings Call TranscriptProvided by QuartrAugust 11, 2025 ShareLink copied to clipboard.Key Takeaways Positive Sentiment: RadNet reported record quarterly revenue of $498.2 million (+8.4% Y/Y) and adjusted EBITDA of $81.2 million (+12.3% Y/Y), raising full‐year imaging center guidance. Positive Sentiment: Advanced imaging rose to 27.5% of total procedures (vs. 26.5% prior year) with MRI up 9% and PET/CT up 22.4%, while TechLive remote scanning reduced MRI room closures by 42% in New York, boosting capacity. Positive Sentiment: The Digital Health segment delivered $20.7 million in revenue (+30.9% Y/Y), with AI solutions up 21.6% and radiology software up 36.1%, and closed iCAD and C-Mode acquisitions to expand AI‐powered breast and ultrasound offerings. Positive Sentiment: RadNet ended Q2 with $833 million of cash, net debt/EBITDA of 0.96x, days sales outstanding down to 32.4, and increased capex guidance by $7 million to fund de novo openings and M&A. Neutral Sentiment: A draft 2026 Medicare fee schedule proposes a $4–5 million revenue uplift following five years of cuts, though final rates will be announced in November. AI Generated. May Contain Errors.Conference Call Audio Live Call not available Earnings Conference CallRadNet Q2 202500:00 / 00:00Speed:1x1.25x1.5x2xTranscript SectionsPresentationParticipantsPresentationSkip to Participants Operator00:00:00Good day, and welcome to RadNet, Inc. Second Quarter twenty twenty five Financial Results Conference Call. Operator00:00:07All participants will be in a listen only mode. Should you need assistance, please signal a conference specialist by pressing the star key followed by zero. After today's presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. To ask a question, you may press star then 1 on a touch tone phone. To withdraw your question, please press star then 2. Operator00:00:29Please note this event is being recorded. I would like now like to turn the conference over to mister Mark Solper, executive vice president and chief financial officer of RadNet. Please go ahead. Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet00:00:43Thank you. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and thank you for joining Doctor. Howard Berger and me today to discuss RadNet's second quarter twenty twenty five financial results. Before we begin today, we'd like to remind everyone of the Safe Harbor statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. This presentation contains forward looking statements within the meaning of The U. Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet00:01:09S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Specifically, statements concerning anticipated future financial and operating performance, RadNet's ability to continue to grow the business by generating patient referrals and contracts with radiology practices, recruiting and retaining technologists, receiving third party reimbursement for diagnostic imaging services, successfully integrating acquired operations, generating revenue and adjusted EBITDA for the acquired operations as estimated, among others, are forward looking statements within the meaning of the Safe Harbor. Forward looking statements are based on management's current preliminary expectations and are subject to risks and uncertainties, which may cause RadNet's actual results to differ materially from the statements contained herein. These risks and uncertainties include those risks set forth in RadNet's reports filed with the SEC from time to time, including RadNet's annual report on Form 10 ks for the year ended 12/31/2024. Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet00:02:21Undue reliance should not be placed on forward looking statements, especially guidance on future financial performance, which speaks only as of the date it is made. RadNet undertakes no obligation to update publicly any forward looking statements to reflect new information, events or circumstances after the date they were made or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events. And with that, I'd like to turn the call over to Doctor. Berger. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet00:02:53Thank you, Mark. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us today. On today's call, Mark and I plan to provide you with highlights from our second quarter twenty twenty five results, give you more insight into factors which affected this performance, and discuss our future strategy. After our prepared remarks, we will open the call to your questions. I'd like to thank all of you for your interest in our company and for dedicating a portion of your day to participate in our conference call this morning. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet00:03:23Let's begin. I am very pleased with the performance in the second quarter. After experiencing significant disruption in the business during the first quarter of this year as a result of the California wildfires and severe winter weather conditions in the Northeast and markets, in the second quarter, business rebounded and we achieved record quarterly revenue and adjusted EBITDA. Relative to last year's second quarter, total company revenue increased 8.4% to a quarterly record $498,200,000 and digital health segment revenue increased 30.9% to a quarterly record of $20,700,000 Contributing to core imaging center revenue growth were a variety of factors. First, industry trends continue to provide tailwinds. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet00:04:26Imaging technology advances in equipment, post processing software, artificial intelligence, contrast materials and nuclear isotopes continue to drive increased utilization of diagnostic imaging within healthcare in general. Furthermore, within this growing industry, the shift of procedural volumes away from the more expensive hospital alternatives to more cost effective ambulatory freestanding centers continues. Second, improvement continues in reimbursement rates with commercial and capitated payers that recognize the position RadNet offers as a lower priced alternative to hospital based imaging. To this end, we have been successful in receiving rate increases for many of the larger commercial payers and several capitated contracts have been converted to higher paying fee for service relationships. Lastly, and perhaps most importantly, the focus has been on driving more advanced imaging procedures, MRI, CT and PETCT, and increasing advanced imaging capacity through a variety of initiatives. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet00:05:42Advanced imaging has a higher per procedure pricing and typically better margins. During the second quarter of this year, advanced imaging as a percentage of total procedures increased to 27.5% from 26.5% in last year's same quarter, an improvement of 102 basis points. This increase is due in part to initiatives that have been identified within each of these modalities. For example, within MRI, the 9% aggregate and 6.6% same center growth in the second quarter as compared with last year's second quarter is partially the result of capacity created from investments made in MRI software upgrades and operating protocols, which enable shorter scan times. The shorter scan times allow for the scheduling of more patients in the same hours of operation. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet00:06:47Within CT, programs have been expanded on both coasts to offer more complex procedures. An example of this is cardiac CT angiography, which is growing rapidly and which in some cases are enhanced with reimbursed artificial intelligence assisted analytics. Within PETCT, emphasis has been on newer diagnostic and screening offerings for prostate cancer, Alzheimer's disease, dementia, and new procedures with leading edge tumor specific radioactive tracer. PETCT has been the fastest growing procedure. This quarter PETCT increased 22.4% on aggregate basis and 16.2% on a same center basis as compared with last year's second quarter. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet00:07:44The increase in advanced imaging, MRI, has also been driven by the implementation of TechLive, our remote screening technology recently cleared by the FDA. TechLive is a vendor agnostic integrated solution enabling remote scanning of MRI, CT, PET CT and ultrasound procedures. Amidst tech labor shortages and inflationary wage pressure, TechWise empowers technologists to scan for multiple locations, enables improved operational efficiency, extends center operating hours, and enhances access to complex procedures. The most significant impact we are experiencing with TechLive is its ability to expand hours of operation by staffing exam rooms, which previously would have been closed. As an example, in a pilot deployment at 64 locations inside of RadNet's New York area facilities, TechWise significantly contributed to a 42% decrease in MRI room closures and during the 2025 as compared with the same period of 2024. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet00:09:13Currently more than 300 of RadNet's MR, CT, PET CT and ultrasound systems are connected with DeepHealth's TechLive solution and are targeting to substantially all of RadNet's advanced imaging equipment to be connected with TechLive in early twenty twenty six. The strong revenue growth from all the factors just discussed, and in particular the initiatives driving more advanced imaging, along with cost effective management contributed to the record adjusted EBITDA and margin expansion in the quarter. Adjusted EBITDA during the 2025 increased by 12.3% to a quarterly record of $81,200,000 up from $72,300,000 in last year's second quarter. And adjusted EBITDA margin increased to 16.3% during the 2025, which compares with 15.7% in last year's second quarter, an improvement of almost 60 basis points. The strong operating results in the second quarter relative to our internal budget resulted in the decision to increase 2025 full year guidance ranges for revenue and adjusted EBITDA. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet00:10:39Mark will discuss this in more detail in his prepared remarks. Steady progress also continues in the digital health operating segment. The EBCD, Deep Health AI powered breast cancer screening program continues to expand. Currently, we are experiencing a blended adoption rate nationally approaching forty five percent with more cancers being found across RadNet centers, which otherwise might have been detected at a much later date. On July 17, the previously announced acquisition of iCAD, a global leader in clinically proven AI powered breast health solutions was completed. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet00:11:29ICAD's ProFound Breast Health Suite and RadNet's Deep Health AI powered screening solutions together can materially expand and improve patient diagnosis and outcomes on a global basis through further enabling accuracy and early detection. With over 1,500 healthcare provider locations facilitating over 8,000,000 annual mammograms in 50 countries, iCAD's installed base and strong sales, engineering and marketing capabilities will provide immediate, broad and valuable customer relationships and commercialization capabilities that can accelerate deep health objectives. On June 4, the acquisition of C Mode Technology, a global innovator in AI for ultrasound imaging was completed. CMODE's initial applications to detect and characterize thyroid nodules and breast lesions in ultrasound imaging improve diagnostic accuracy and enhance clinical workflows. With the inherent complexity of ultrasound imaging and its dependency on the individual capabilities of the technologists and radiologists, the opportunity to improve care through AI is significant. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet00:12:55With demand exceeding available appointment slots for many of the 900 ultrasound units in three twenty six of our locations, the increase in capacity created by CMOs technology should improve our ability to drive better access and more revenue through RadNet's existing centers. Early deployment of CMOS FDA approved thyroid ultrasound artificial intelligence across 83 of the imaging centers has demonstrated up to 30% reduction in scan time, And it is anticipated that C Mode will be fully implemented in the remaining centers by the end of the 2026. Furthermore, a reimbursement code already exists that makes a portion of our approximately 250,000 annual thyroid ultrasound eligible for additional reimbursement. An initiative is ongoing to pursue FDA approval for CMODE's next application in breast AI ultrasound, which constitutes over 600,000 of RADNet's approximately 2.7 annually ultrasound exams performed. While initial focus will be on the implementation within RadNet, these technologies will also be sold and marketed by the Digital Health Division to third parties as the offerings are further commercialized. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet00:14:29Finally, financial liquidity and leverage continues to be carefully managed. As of 06/30/2025, our cash balance was $833,000,000 and net debt to adjusted EBITDA ratio was 0.96. An attractive pipeline of acquisition opportunities are being evaluated for both the core imaging services division and for digital health. And we have confidence in our ability to invest the cash balance over time and opportunities that advance RADNet's strategic objectives. At this time, I'd like to turn the call back over to Mark to discuss some of the highlights of our second quarter twenty twenty five performance. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet00:15:19When he is finished, I will make some closing remarks. Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet00:15:24Thank you, Howard. I'm now going to briefly review our second quarter twenty twenty five performance and attempt to highlight what I believe to be some material items. I will also give some further explanation of certain items in our financial statements as well as provide some insights in some of the metrics that drove our second quarter performance. I will also provide an update to 2025 financial guidance levels, which were released in conjunction with our 2024 year end results in February and amended following our first quarter financial results in May. In my discussion, I will use the term adjusted EBITDA, which is a non GAAP financial measure. Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet00:16:07The company defines adjusted EBITDA as earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization and excludes losses or gains on the disposal of equipment, other income or loss, loss on debt extinguishment and non cash equity compensation. Adjusted EBITDA includes equity and earnings in unconsolidated operations and subtracts allocations of earnings to non controlling interest in subsidiaries and is adjusted for non cash or extraordinary and one time items taken place during the period. A full quantitative reconciliation of adjusted EBITDA to net income or loss attributable to RadNet income and shareholders is included in our earnings release. With that said, I'd now like to review our second quarter twenty twenty five results. As Doctor. Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet00:17:03Berger highlighted in his remarks, our business bounced back in the second quarter nicely, recovering to more anticipated levels following the California wildfires and severe winter weather conditions in the Northeast that significantly impacted us in the first quarter of this year. In the second quarter, we returned to the type of growth we have been demonstrating over the last several years. Our results were highlighted by strong performance and growth in advanced imaging, which is being driven by many of the initiatives that Doctor. Berger discussed. Advanced imaging grew 9% in aggregate and 6.6% on the same center basis relative to last year's second quarter. Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet00:17:47PETCT, which continues to be our fastest growing modality, grew 22.4 in aggregate and 16.2% on a same center basis, predominantly on the growth of PSMA and amyloid brain studies. The disproportional growth in advanced imaging relative to routine imaging has been a steady trend and continues to help us absorb the inflationary pressure we and the rest of the industry have been feeling with respect to the availability and rising costs of labor, especially as it pertains to radiology technologists. We believe there is continued opportunities for margin improvement as a result of driving more advanced imaging in our centers and through the implementation of many of the software tools offered by the Digital Health Division. During the quarter, we opened one new facility in New Brunswick, New Jersey and have nine additional facilities that we are targeting to open by the end of the year, which includes three joint venture facilities and six wholly owned locations. These de novo openings will give us the necessary capacity to support the heavy diagnostic imaging demand in our markets and should enable us to continue similar organic growth into the future. Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet00:19:13For the 2025, RadNet reported total company revenue of $498,200,000 and adjusted EBITDA of $81,200,000 both quarterly records. Revenue increased $38,500,000 or 8.4% and adjusted EBITDA increased $8,900,000 or 12.3% as compared with 2024. The combination of the strong top line growth and our ability to manage operating costs effectively caused EBITDA margins to improve by 57 basis points relative to last year's second quarter. The digital health segment reported revenue of $20,700,000 a 30.9% increase from last year's second quarter. Breaking this down further, AI revenue within digital health increased 21.6% from a combination of growing the EBCD program revenue and through expanded licensing of DeepHealth lung, prostate and neuro solutions primarily in Europe. Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet00:20:24Radiology software revenue within digital health grew 36.1% relative to last year's second quarter from a combination of internal revenue from RadNet imaging centers adopting further elements of DeepHealth OS, including certain contact center software and TechLive as well as from external sales of workflow software solutions. We continue to make important investments in sales, marketing, development, customer support and implementation teams necessary to support anticipated growth over the next five years. Despite these investments in infrastructure related operating expenses, EBITDA for digital health grew 4.1% over last year's second quarter. As Doctor. Berger mentioned, we finished the 2025 with a strong cash and liquidity position. Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet00:21:24At quarter end, we had $833,000,000 of cash on the balance sheet, full availability of a $282,000,000 credit facility and a term loan that is priced at SOFR plus two twenty five basis points reflective of the refinancing transaction we completed last April and the repricing transaction we completed last November. Continued improvements in revenue cycle have driven down DSOs or days sales outstanding to thirty two point four days, slightly lower than where we were at this time last year. With regards to our financial leverage as of 03/31/2025, unadjusted for bond and term loan discounts, we had $264,600,000 of net debt, which is our total debt at par value less our cash balance. Note that this debt includes RadNet's ownership percentage of New Jersey Imaging Network's net debt of $36,200,000 for which RadNet is neither a borrower nor guarantor. At quarter end, our net debt to adjusted EBITDA leverage was slightly less than one times. Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet00:22:38Given the strong second quarter results of the positive trends we continue to experience, we elected to increase revenue and adjusted EBITDA guidance for imaging center business. We increased revenue by $15,000,000 at the low and high ends of the guidance ranges and increased adjusted EBITDA by $3,000,000 at the low and high end of the ranges. We also increased our capital expenditure guidance range by $7,000,000 which is reflective of additional growth investment opportunities we plan to pursue in the second half of the year. Otherwise, all guidance ranges for imaging center segment remain unchanged. For Digital Health, we plan to update guidance ranges upon announcing our third quarter results in November. Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet00:23:29This update will reflect contributions from the iCAD and CMODE transactions and incorporate any other information about the operating segment we have at that time. At that time, we should have a much better sense as to how the integration of iCAD and C Mode is progressing as well as each's revenue contribution for the second half of the year. I'll now take a few minutes to give you an update on 2026 anticipated Medicare reimbursement rates. As a reminder, Medicare represents about 23% of our business mix. With respect to Medicare reimbursement, several weeks ago we received a matrix for proposed rates by CPT code, which is typically part of the physician fee schedule proposal that is released about this time every year. Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet00:24:23We have completed an initial analysis and compared those proposed rates to our current 2025 rates And we volume weighted our analysis using expected 2026 procedure volumes. In the proposed rule, Medicare is proposing increasing the conversion factor in the Medicare fee schedule by 3.3% from $32.35 to $33.42 along with certain changes to the RVUs or relative value units of specific radiology CPT procedure codes and to the Medicare geographic practice cost indices or GIPCs. Our initial analysis of all these moving parts of the proposal indicates that RadNet on roughly $1,900,000,000 in revenue will benefit from approximately 4 to $5,000,000 Medicare revenue uplift in 2026. We are very pleased that we will likely be getting this modest increase next year after about five years of annual cuts to Medicare reimbursement, including in 2025 when we have absorbed and are continuing to absorb about a 7 to $8,000,000 cut. We hope that this is a recognition from CMS that it must compensate providers appropriately and that its reimbursement should be commensurate with the rising cost of providing services. Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet00:26:00The Medicare physician fee final rule is expected to be released on or about 11/01/2025. There's no assurance that the final rule will be consistent with this proposal. On our third quarter financial results call in November, we hope to be able to provide more certainty around 2026 Medicare rates. I'd now like to turn the call back over to Doctor. Berger, who will make some closing remarks. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet00:26:32Thank you, Mark. The diagnostic imaging industry has entered a period of transformation. Traditionally, diagnostic imaging has relied primarily on manual processes and labor to complete most aspects of services. The manual nature of the industry has historically leaned heavily on the availability of skilled labor for all clinical aspects of the patient journey, as well as for performing all the requisite non patient facing support functions, including scheduling, pre authorization, insurance verification, revenue cycle, coding, just to name a few. More recently, quantum leaps in computing power, machine learning, and artificial intelligence have demonstrated the possibilities for the future of the industry. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet00:27:37Having under one roof, the largest scale imaging services business in The United States and a leading radiology focused digital health segment that is building innovative workflow and clinical solutions, RadNet is at the nexus of this industry's transformation. Over the past five years, RadNet has been investing in both clinical and operational artificial intelligence. Within clinical or predictive AI, the focus of our investments and development efforts are in two areas. The first is in the development of interpretive AI solutions focused on population health screening. Today, the diagnostic imaging industry principally performs procedures on patients who are already symptomatic, sick, or injured. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet00:28:35In contrast, the solutions being developed in breast, lung and prostate are designed to lower the cost and increase the effectiveness of diagnostic imaging based screening tools to detect diseases earlier when better patient outcomes are achievable. Launching the EBCD AI powered breast screening program, working with the NHS in The UK to implement the targeted lung health check program, and beginning an MRI based AI powered prostate screening program are examples of what is possible in diagnostic imaging based population health. The second area of RadNet's clinical AI and technology investment is in AI tools that can make the clinical staff, technologists and radiologists more productive. Two examples of these are the recent purchase of C Mode and the recently FDA cleared TechLive solution. In regards to C technology eliminates certain manual processes of technologists and radiologists in conjunction with commonly performed thyroid and breast ultrasound exam, thereby increasing center level productivity by reducing scanning times and creating valuable scanning capacity. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet00:30:06TechLive, as we discussed earlier, reduces exam room closures from insufficient staffing and allows for the expansion of hours of operations, thereby also helping to create screening capacity, excuse me, scanning capacity. Within operational or generative AI, the focus has been on developing the DeepHealth OS, a comprehensive end to end cloud native operations and image management solution designed to automate many of the manual functions that are currently performed throughout the diagnostic imaging workflow. RADMIT's performance in the second quarter reflected some of the early benefits from these strategic technological initiatives and investment in both clinical and operational AI. During the quarter, revenue was enhanced from the clinical investment in screening programs from breast, lung and prostate, and from the early deployment of TechLive. In addition, costs were reduced and margins were improved from some of the early implementation of certain deep health OS modules at selected RadNet centers. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet00:31:30In the coming quarters, we will continue to expand all of these programs within RadNet centers and we'll be more actively marketing the digital health solutions to external customers, including some of our existing health system joint venture partners and current customers of our legacy ERAD software solutions. We look forward to updating you on our progress in the coming months. Operator, we are now ready for the question and answer portion of the call. Operator00:32:03Thank you. We will now begin the question and answer session. To ask a question, you may press star then one on your touch tone phone. If you are using a speakerphone, please pick up your handset before pressing the keys. If at any time your question has been addressed and you would like to withdraw your question, please press star then 2. Operator00:32:35The first question comes from David McNaughlin with Tudorish. Please go ahead. David MacdonaldAnalyst at Truist Securities00:32:41Good morning, everyone. Just a couple of questions. First, can you guys just talk a little bit about once all of this is kind of fully rolled out in 2026 between the capacity you're adding with de novos, with the TechLives and C modes of the world and also just the improvement in the underlying technology and quicker throughput. Can you give us some sense or just talk in more detail about either how much incremental capacity anticipate having or just the incremental leverage around your in place labor force? Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet00:33:17Good morning, David. Thanks for joining us. Well, I think I can perhaps at this time answer by example, some of which I gave in our prepared remarks. If we take a look, for example, at our New York market where we have probably the greatest demand and some of the greatest challenges from a staffing standpoint, we were able to reduce the number of hours that our centers were forced to close, not close, but certain modalities were unable to have scheduled patients by 40%. I'm talking primarily about MRI at this time since that's the most complete or larger amount of the modality with the largest amount of tech live adoption. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet00:34:18That is a substantial improvement that has created capacity by expanding hours. And so, expanding hours and creating that capacity can only you can only realize the benefit if you have the demand for procedures that will allow you to fill those now available slots. That's why we chose to introduce this into the greater New York City marketplace because of the enormous number of the volume of procedures that we do and the demand that we have. So, I think that's a good measure for us on looking at just the impact of TechLive! Which is primarily one that allows us to open rooms that would otherwise have been closed. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet00:35:24And if we use that as a benchmark for what we would anticipate elsewhere, I think that that's a reasonable assumption. So that in and of itself was creating 40% improvement in capacity for those centers that had rooms closed. If we were to take a particular day that we might have closed two hours or may have been capable of opening two hours more and being able to do three patients on average per hour, that would be six per day. So if you have the demand to fill those slots, I think you can do some of the math to see what the potential improvement there. And another example that I'll give you, which is more related to equipment upgrades, we have been able to take some of our MRI scanners and upgrade the software that allows for faster processing of the imaging and therefore reducing the amount of time that the patient has to spend on the scanner. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet00:36:35In our West Coast marketplace, where we did an extensive amount of these upgrades and looked at those centers, we were able to create just through the investment, which is relatively nominal. If you look at the cost of an MRI scan, we're talking about 150,000 to $200,000 for the upgrade, which is all software versus a price point of closer to 1,500,000.0 for an MRI scanner. We were able to create another four to five scans per day in the same hours of operation. And again, you could do the math and see what kind of potential improvement in revenue that could generate. So, we think that that is a very good benchmark for us to use to explain some of the margin improvement. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet00:37:33While it's nice to generate more revenue, the goals that we have from what we're already doing as well as what we have planned, which is more difficult to measure at this point until more of the Deep Health OS system is actually tested, implemented and operationalized could have the kind of margin improvement that we've already demonstrated and then some. But we're talking about something that is gonna take another twelve months to become fully implemented. But suffice it to say two important things from maybe a little longer answer, David, than you expected. But number one is increasing capacity with limited investment is clearly a driver of margin improvement. The other is really completing the process of something that would be transformative for the entire patient journey, which could have even more profound impact once we're able to fully implement it and make certain that the tools give us the results that we anticipate. David MacdonaldAnalyst at Truist Securities00:38:52And then guys, go just a couple of ahead, I'm sorry. Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet00:38:55No, I was going to just add one more thing to Doctor. Berger's answer, is to say that this year in 2025, we are targeting to build 11 facilities and we've opened two thus far. We've got nine that are on the docket for the second half of the year to open. And we have 11 projects in the works for additional de novo facilities in 2026. So if you add those two together, you're talking about 22 additional centers on four zero five current locations. Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet00:39:33So that's about a 5% increase in centers or additional potential capacity to be filled going forward. So the combination of what we're trying to do within the existing footprint as well as expanding the existing footprint pretty substantially, I think should give us the ability to continue to drive similar types of same center procedure volume growth into the future. David MacdonaldAnalyst at Truist Securities00:40:03And then guys, just a couple of other quick ones. One, can you just give us a sense of initial feedback from the iCAD customer base, how you think about the cross selling opportunities and just as you start to put the two companies together? Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet00:40:19Well, I think we're a little bit early in that journey, David, given that we just closed and are starting to do a deeper dive into iCAD as of July 17. So we're barely three weeks into that process. What we are pleased with is the quality of the sales and marketing team, the engineers and the management team to help embrace both cross selling and most importantly, take the iCAD products along with the deep health breast AI products and put them into a more comprehensive offering. So I think it's a little early to give you more specifics other than we're very pleased with what we see so far. And I think I'll be able to make more comments on that at the end of our third quarter financial reporting. David MacdonaldAnalyst at Truist Securities00:41:24Okay, and just last one for me. Just curious, additional conversations or anything that's been prompted by some of the EBCD reimbursement announcement that you guys put out, just what you're hearing from other payers in terms of potential further expansion of coverage of that product. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet00:41:45Yeah, that's another one of those journeys that we're going to have to be patient with. But I think the announcement that we did that one of our capitated groups has now endorsed and is paying for EBCD for all their membership at no cost to their patients, should be some impetus for the other payers to recognize that the value proposition that we're talking about is rather profound. And I think putting pressure to have these kinds of screening tools, particularly I think at what I believe are very modest prices and recognize the opportunity for better outcomes is extraordinary. And I think we are having conversations with a number of the payers. It's just a matter of time until this becomes fully recognized as the state of the art here in The U. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet00:42:50S. It's adopted. But I think we're just going to have to go through the efforts of having the consumer, meaning our patients, recognize it ahead of perhaps the payers that are going to adopt it, pressure themselves on those systems to do the right thing, that is to make good medicine good business. David MacdonaldAnalyst at Truist Securities00:43:21Okay, thanks very much. Congratulations. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet00:43:25Thanks, David. Operator00:43:28The next question comes from Brian Trancullot with Jefferies. Please go ahead. Brian TanquilutSenior Analyst - Healthcare Services & HCIT/Digital Health Equity Research at Jefferies & Company Inc00:43:37Hi, good morning. Congrats on the quarter. Maybe Howard, just or Mark, to follow-up, as I think about some of these acquisitions that you've done, I mean C Mode comes up as a technology that supports the other side of the business, right, even though it runs under the digital health side. I mean, Howard, you talked about the what technology is doing to open up capacity. So if I'm just trying to quantify these things, I mean, number one, is there is this one of those things where there's enough backlog and demand that as long as you add capacity, you feel like you can add the revenue? And then when I think of C Mode, I think in the past you've said it adds like two scans a day or something like that. And running the math, I mean, it's a pretty big number. Brian TanquilutSenior Analyst - Healthcare Services & HCIT/Digital Health Equity Research at Jefferies & Company Inc00:44:18And if you can walk us through how you're thinking about that and kind of like what kind of margins should we be thinking about what these technology additions add to the business? Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet00:44:29Hi, Brian. Nice to talk to you as always. Let me couch that, Brian, using some of the examples that you've given. There's actually three ways that we see C Mode in particular with their thyroid ultrasound AI benefiting us and which really was the decision to acquire CMODE as opposed to just license it. The first is looking at the radiologist. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet00:45:02Thyroid ultrasound is perhaps one of the most difficult and consuming from a time standpoint diagnostic procedure that is done in all of radiology. And it's extraordinarily manually intensive for the radiologist as well as the technologist. We're quite confident that the early results of improved interpretation for the thyroid ultrasound can be reduced perhaps as much by fifty percent. And that's after a pretty substantial trial that we've done in the initial implementation. So, that will create a lot of additional capacity for our radiologists to help manage the turnaround time for reporting and for us to have to use less outside teleradiology services to satisfy the demand that we have. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet00:46:09On the technologist side of it and the equipment side of it, the early reporting is that we can reduce at least 30% of the scan time, which means that the normal amount of time that we are the traditional amount of time that we allocate for doing an ultrasound of any kind is about thirty minutes. If we can reduce that by 30%, which is what we're showing initially, that's a pretty substantial reduction and potentially could give us one to two more slots per hour per system. Now, again, much like I was describing with MRI, number one, do you have that capacity, meaning the demand to fill the capacity if you create it? And number two, will that happen on every ultrasound unit? And the answer to that is probably no, because not every piece of ultrasound equipment that we have functions at that same level of intensity like our busiest centers. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet00:47:18But in those busier centers, I'll go back, we have over 900 ultrasounds in 300, and I think the number was 28 centers, and about 30% of those, 25 or 30% now have the C mode. And we're putting those into the centers where we have the biggest challenges. So what this will allow us to do in those centers that have the extraordinary demand. Ultrasound has always been one of the most sought after imaging modalities, and it's growing perhaps more rapidly than almost any other procedure that we have, is the one that became a major focus for us as we went to the next imaging modality after mammography to try to create improvements in AI. So I think we'll have better statistical information on this, Brian, even very modest additional capacity. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet00:48:26And again, the issue is creating the capacity and then make certain that you adjust your scheduling to fit those that capacity needs with the demand at a particular location. Our teams on both coasts are quite confident that they will be able to do that. But like everything else, it'll be a period of adjustment because it's not just build it and they'll come. It's a matter of kind of integrating it into the entire workflow program to create that kind of success. But the math on the numbers is quite overwhelming. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet00:49:06And we think in the long run, not just what RadNet can do, but what this can do for the entire industry will help not only drive this as a sales opportunity, but will enhance our ability overall to externalize commercially our entire platform. Because all the tools that we want to build on that platform hopefully will have similar benefits either for the radiologists, the technologists or both. So it might be a little bit early for me to give more specifics. I'd rather do that when I feel we've had a better chance to do this. We just completed the CMO acquisition on June 1. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet00:49:52So, after doing some test work, we're now in full deployment to get all of the rest of the either 70 or 75% of our ultrasound scanners upgraded to the CMO technology. And it can happen fast enough. I have often said in the past, if I had if I could get enough rooms to put ultrasounds in, we could fill them. Now, at least we feel that we don't need more ultrasound systems and we don't need more text. We need more capacity on the existing systems. Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet00:50:33And I'll add one other thing to your question about the flow through and the margin. The flow through will be very substantial because we're talking about just doing more scans in the same facilities, in the same hours of operations, because essentially what CMO does is allow for shorter scanning times. And so theoretically, principal cost that would be that would come from the incremental scans that go through the same centers at the same in the same business hours is really the cost of the radiologists to read or interpret the incremental scans, which were usually runs in the 20% ish range, give or take a few points on that revenue. So it's as we've always said, most profitable growth we can have is driving more revenue through the same fixed cost base of centers. Brian TanquilutSenior Analyst - Healthcare Services & HCIT/Digital Health Equity Research at Jefferies & Company Inc00:51:31That's awesome. That sounds really good. Mark, maybe as I think about M and A capital deployment, I know you added or you tapped a credit facility during the quarter, so your cash balance is pretty is even more significant now. Just curious how you're thinking about capital deployment on the M and A front more specifically. And then I know you're building 11 de novos, so just curious how you're thinking about the cost of that and what the de novo kind of outlook is as we think about the growth algorithm going forward? Thank you. Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet00:52:05Sure. So our pipeline of opportunities has grown and I think we're more confident today than we have been in past quarters to say that we should be putting some of that capital that cash balance to work in the second half of this year. So we're excited about that. I think predominantly most of that is earmarked towards imaging center, traditional imaging center acquisitions as well as some new joint venture opportunities where we'll be putting some capital to work. And then there are a couple of digital health acquisitions that we are evaluating as well. Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet00:52:55So stay tuned, hopefully we'll be in a position to talk about some of these things publicly in the coming months. On the acquisition on the de novo side, as I mentioned, we're targeting nine new facility openings by year end. Hopefully, can get that done. And then we've got 11 additional facilities that are in various stages of development and construction that should open in 2026. Beyond that, it remains to be seen what is the opportunity. Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet00:53:32We tend to allocate our capital based upon the opportunities that exist at the time, whether it's earmarked for M and A, de novos, hospital joint ventures, etcetera. It just so happens that we see a lot of opportunity on the De Novo side today where to build substantial capacity where we've got a lot of demand in the local markets or we're not serve or we need points of access to service patient populations that we currently don't have today. We're constantly evaluating and reevaluating what the best use of our capital is. Brian TanquilutSenior Analyst - Healthcare Services & HCIT/Digital Health Equity Research at Jefferies & Company Inc00:54:12Awesome. Thank you. Congrats again. Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet00:54:14Thanks, Brian. Operator00:54:17The next question comes from John Ransom with Raymond James. Please go ahead. John RansomMD & Director - Healthcare Research at Raymond James Financial00:54:23Hey, good morning. A couple for me. Mark, as we think about M and A, and I know you had announced anything, but just directionally, how should we think about the next year currently considering in digital assets versus traditional imaging assets? Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet00:54:42Sure. I think more of the capital is going to be allocated at this point, given what we see and what we have in the pipeline towards the imaging center, the traditional services business. There are some acquisitions we're looking at on the digital health side. I think most of them are smaller than the iCAD opportunity. So, I don't necessarily see us doing something with a lot of our capital towards imaging service towards digital health at this point. Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet00:55:19Obviously, could change if something were to come to the table that's so compelling. But right now the majority of our pipeline or actionable pipeline is on the imaging services side. John RansomMD & Director - Healthcare Research at Raymond James Financial00:55:35Great. Second one for me, you know, look Mark for a state school grad, this digital health story has gotten complicated. So we're still working at figuring it out, but let's just kind of focus on for now the technology as it exists in your core imaging segment. So there are a few things going on, There's the conversion to deep health iOS. There's the remote tech, which you certainly talked a lot more about this call. John RansomMD & Director - Healthcare Research at Raymond James Financial00:56:03I mean, there's you've got a call center. I know that you spent a lot of money on, but if if we were just to dream a little bit and look out a few years, and I'm I'm not asking you for 26 guidance, but just directionally, what kind of margin could all of this unlock when you kind of fully deploy it? Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet00:56:22Well, I think the best way to answer that question is to look at some of the other radiology software providers or just SaaS based software businesses out there that where we think and we hope and we aspire to grow our digital health software business in range of 30% per year for many years to come. That doesn't mean that every year might be 30%, it could be a little lower, little higher in any given year, but that's the trajectory that we're looking for that business. And we think once mature, if you look at other SaaS based software businesses, we should have EBITDA margins approaching 50% with little capital intensity, certainly That as compared to our core imaging center John RansomMD & Director - Healthcare Research at Raymond James Financial00:57:15was a different question than I asked, appreciate that color. Now I'm asking like just on the core imaging, once you fully deploy the DeepHealth iOS, once you fully deploy remote tech, once you maybe look at some opportunities in your call center, what's the imaging EBITDA margin unlock percentage once you just start using once you fully deploy all these tools in the out years. Not not with digital health segment alone is doing, but what could this do with the core business? I'm sorry. I was unclear. Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet00:57:41Now now I understand your question. Yeah. I think, Howard, do want to take that or you want me to give a shot at? Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet00:57:50I'll give a shot at it and then you can amplify on it, Mark. Sure. Have to, John, look at not how the total would look, but what does the sum of the parts look like that will give you the total savings. And what I mean by that is our platform is a modular platform, and it allows us to look at one function, if you will, at a time, multiple if we want, but one at a time to see what kind of a potential impact going from a more manual labor intense process to a short to one that is more tech enabled, if you will. I don't want to just use the word AI, but tech enabled. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet00:58:46And, for example, in the contact centers, we look at our current typical call handling time. And right now we measure on a blended basis the average call in minutes. Obviously, some calls are shorter than others, but even if I were to use five minutes as a typical call, and I actually think it's longer than that, if we were able to get a modest 10% reduction on every call that is logged into our contact centers, that improvement is enormous when you consider that we do about 11,000,000 procedures annually, but each procedure is associated with multiple calls. Some of those calls are not to schedule a patient, but to ask for direction or to give insurance information or to ask about directions on the closest center. All of those are things that we feel we can have impact on. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet01:00:06And if you do simple math and something that I think is easily achievable, a modest 10% improvement on this, the numbers are just staggering. And for us, while it may not necessarily lead to less people we employ, we wanna make the people that we do employ that much more productive so that we can grow the volume without the dependency of continuing to have to be challenged with the labor costs and availability of labor that everybody in the industry is facing. So, I think we could do some statistics around that. We haven't as yet. But everything that we do now will have either a full or a partial component that is addressed by artificial intelligence. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet01:01:08And I named a few of those a couple of times in my prepared remarks. Maybe you could John RansomMD & Director - Healthcare Research at Raymond James Financial01:01:15tell us what you spend on your call center today? What's that cost? Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet01:01:22Yeah. Our overall call center cost for a company north of $60,000,000 a year. Okay. That includes the people, the systems, the facility rent, services that we currently use offshore. It's a very substantial. John RansomMD & Director - Healthcare Research at Raymond James Financial01:01:41Yeah, I've covered you guys for a long time. I don't think I've ever discussed the cost. Maybe I'm the last guy to the party here, but that's pretty interesting. And then lastly, Mark, you've said before, putting your centers on deep health iOS as an 8 figure good guy. I know you're just starting that process. John RansomMD & Director - Healthcare Research at Raymond James Financial01:01:57Is the goal still to have all these done by the end of the year? And do you have any obviously eight figures could be $10,000,000 or $99,000,000 So have you thought any more about narrowing that good guy as well? Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet01:02:12Yes. I mean, it's going be hard to come up with a number today. I mean, we're blazing a new path with some of these deep health or digital health initiatives. I think, we'll have a better feeling as we start just like with TechLive! As we start rolling that out and we've done a pilot, now we have a little bit better feeling for that. Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet01:02:36I think we'll as we get into our budgeting process towards the end of this year, which starts looking at what 2026 will look like, I think we'll have a better feeling for some of that. But some of these modules aren't going to be being aren't being adopted until 2026 or throughout 2026. So even if we were to come up with a big number, it's not going to happen overnight. Going to be gradual over the next few years. John RansomMD & Director - Healthcare Research at Raymond James Financial01:03:10Okay, guys. Thanks a lot. Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet01:03:13Thanks, John. Operator01:03:15The next question comes from Andrew Mok with Barclays. Please go ahead. Andrew MokDirector at Barclays01:03:21Hi, good morning. Just one question for me. Mark, I think you called out a 4,000,000 to $5,000,000 benefit from the physician fee schedule next year. I think this year's rate headwind without the doc fix was 7,000,000 to $8,000,000 and the headline rate update next year would suggest at least 4% plus and maybe a larger benefit than what you called out. So can you help us understand the items weighing on that benefit when you did the CPT analysis? Thanks. Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet01:03:47Yeah, sure. You know, we always caution every year people to just extrapolate the headline that you might read in news stories or even CMS when they give their little tables in there, because you have to go CPT code by CPT code, you have to then also incorporate the gypsies or the geographic codes based upon where in The United States you operate. And so, it's often that when it looks like a big impact one way or another, traditionally it's been a cut for us. Our cuts not quite as big as the impact it shows it. Well, it's the same thing that's happening next year on the increase where our increase is not quite as big as what the headline number says, because even though the conversion factor increased by three or is increasing by 3.3% next year for non APM, facility based Medicare fee schedule billers. Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet01:04:51When you look at the individual CPT codes, they've made a number of adjustments, particularly to the practice expense portion of the procedures where some of these RVUs are going down and some of these gypsies are going down that therefore mitigate some of that otherwise headline number benefit to us. So it's, we've done an exhaustive analysis that we do every year and we're confident in the four to five up uplift in our reimbursement next year. Andrew MokDirector at Barclays01:05:28Great, thank you. Operator01:05:32The next question comes from Larry Solow with CJS Securities. Please go ahead. Larry SolowPartner & Managing director - Equity Analyst at CJS Securities01:05:39Good morning, guys. I got a question just Howard, you get some really nice detail on the CMO kind of the strategy and it really makes sense. I'm just curious on the with iCAD, is the strategy from a high level, clearly your exposure to mammography procedures is going up by like four or five fold. Is the strategy just to upsell your AI equipment to these customers or is it a combination of the profound health breast health suite that ICAD brings along with your technologies? Can you just give us a little more color just from a high level there? Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet01:06:19Sure, Larry. The iCAD products, which is their ProFound suite, and the DeepHealth product, which is primarily our Sage DX platform or smart mammography, are really very different in some respects. And what our teams are working on already is how do we blend those into a single set of offerings to both the current RADNET customers as well as iCAD customers. But I would also like to point out that ICARE also has a couple of other products that they either have or will be getting FDA approval that we can add to the existing EBCD program that will expand the value proposition for early breast care detection. So we're still working out some of those details. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet01:07:33And again, this has only been the last three weeks that we've been able to speak directly to the various people and departments inside of iCAD. But I think you can expect both customer bases, if you will, that which ICAD brought to the table and which RadNet is bringing to the table to be beneficiaries of a more comprehensive solution, not only for the mammography that we're doing here in The United States, but I can't I want to point out has a substantial number of customers outside The United States, primarily in Europe, that we think some of our other products in the deep health program, or just in mammography will gain a lot of traction. So, we're very pleased that we've done the iCAD transaction. And I think the marketplace should be pleased with that too, because I think putting these two brands together is gonna have a far greater impact on the overall value proposition of artificial intelligence and early disease detection. And I'm specifically using the word disease detection and not breast cancer detection, because some of the tools that we're looking at, things like risk assessment and breast arterial calcification are all things that fall into the category of screening, but not necessarily just for breast cancer. Larry SolowPartner & Managing director - Equity Analyst at CJS Securities01:09:12Gotcha. No, I appreciate all the color and Mark, I know you're not ready to give guidance, but just from a high level, I think when you first announced the acquisition, I think you mentioned that there was some spending that you were going to do organically that you may not have to do now as you acquire iCAD. Is that kind of build you know, you've had a couple of months at least not under the hood, but at least to plan your own internal strategies. Is that still kind of the case? Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet01:09:39Yeah, so before we announced iCAD, we had earmarked up to about $20,000,000 of additional infrastructure investments within digital health for 2025, which was the reason why we weren't going to we weren't anticipating in 2025 to see a lot of flow through on the profitability side of that business. With the iCAD acquisition, some of that investment in infrastructure, which was earmarked for sales and marketing teams, commercialization teams, deployment, customer support implementation that we're getting from the ICAD transaction and some of the talented team members that have come on board. So, I think what we're synthesizing that this quarter and in November when we release our third quarter results, we'll update the guidance for digital health, which will incorporate the revenue contributions that we see for the second half of the year from both iCAD and C mode as well as any adjustments that we might make on the profitability side, which will have this benefit that we just talked about as incorporated into the results. Larry SolowPartner & Managing director - Equity Analyst at CJS Securities01:11:06Great, thanks. I appreciate the color. Operator01:11:11The next question comes from Yuan Zi with B. Riley. Please go ahead. Yuan ZhiManaging Director at B.Riley Securities01:11:17Thank you for taking our questions and congrats on another strong quarter. With the increased utilization mentioned by multiple payers, how did that impact your conversations of the capitated contact? Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet01:11:33Are you saying I Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet01:11:35just want to make sure I understand the question. Are you asking about with the improved pricing that we're getting from some of the commercial insurance companies, is that affecting our viewpoint or our outlook on capitation? Is that Yuan ZhiManaging Director at B.Riley Securities01:11:51Yes. Yuan ZhiManaging Director at B.Riley Securities01:11:51So my question is, the multiple healthcare provider insurance companies have mentioned that they have increased utilization, including imaging and diagnostic imaging. I wonder, did they try to have those risks by signing more captivated contracts? And how does that impact your conversation of capitated contract? Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet01:12:16Got it, got it, understand. Well, look, I think, we've been in the capitation business for close to thirty years and we enjoy that business. It's predominantly a book of business that's here in California. We've managed up to almost about 2,000,000 lives at the peak of our capitation. We don't mind taking risk. Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet01:12:41With taking risk and managing risk appropriately, we've had these contracts have been very profitable for us over a number of decades. However, as you mentioned, does continue to go up in diagnostic imaging. We see that and feel that within our capitation contracts and upon renewal, we have to make sure that we're getting compensated commensurate with the efforts that and the number of procedures that were contributing to contracts and in situations where we can't, or we don't feel like we're being paid adequately and we can't get the increases that I think would allow us to continue these relationships, we flip some of these relationships over to fee for service relationships, where they're no longer obligated to send us all of these patients like they were when we were capitating for them. But because of our strong position in many of these local markets, we end up seeing most, if not all of these patients anyway under fee for service arrangements where we can get significantly better pricing. So what you've seen in our revenue over the last, I'd say four to six quarters is that our capitation revenue has come down, but our overall revenue has gone up and that's because we're taking some, we're getting increased reimbursement when we flip these contracts to fee for service relationships, and capitation arrangements that we currently still perform are being performed at rates that we think are appropriate given the other books of business that we have. Yuan ZhiManaging Director at B.Riley Securities01:14:42Got it. And then for this remote scanning solution, how quickly do you think you will be able to deploy it outside of the New York facilities? Any regulatory requirement for someone, let's say, in California to operate a machine in New York? Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet01:14:59Well, we've actually begun that process already. So technologists in Florida that are operating scanners in New York. We have technologists in Arizona that are assisting scanning in California. So we've already gone beyond the New York market. I only use the New York market because it's one of the more mature ones and it's the one where the demand issues are particularly profound. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet01:15:39So, you know, we hope to have the rest of our MRI fleet enabled with TechLive by the 2026 in that first quarter. So we're rapidly moving along that path right now. Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet01:16:01Yeah, I was going to just add Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet01:16:04We're one other also testing the ability for technologists or better techno or more capable techs to control multiple machines at one time, which while I don't know that all of our techs have the capabilities of doing this, but it will give us some additional, leverage with our labor force and will allow some of our technologists to make more money and be more productive. Yuan ZhiManaging Director at B.Riley Securities01:16:36Got it. And one last question from us, considering the rapid increase of Alzheimer related imaging, where are we in terms of the current capacity utilization for PET scan and MRI? Do you have the remaining capacity for more backlogs for utilization? Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet01:16:56Yeah, the answer to that Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet01:17:02is yes. And it's probable that the increased demand that we're seeing for MRI is in fact coming from Alzheimer's. Because once you do the PET CT and identify a candidate that might be a a patient that might be a candidate for drug treatment, you then wind up doing, I believe it is either three or four MRIs in that first year on drug treatment. So we're getting a double bang for the buck, if you will, that our MRI scanners are getting more challenged by the success that we're having in the amyloid and Alzheimer's program, which has grown dramatically here since the beginning of the year. Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet01:18:04And to your question directly on the PETCT capacity, we have a fair bit of PETCT capacity today. We're running at run rate, if you just multiply the PETCTs we completed this quarter times four, close to about 90,000 scans per year. We're doing that on about 68 or 69 pet machines nationwide, if you assume that they're open two fifty five workdays. We're talking about doing an average today of about five pet CTs per machine per day. A very busy PETCT scanner can do upwards of 15 scans per day. Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet01:18:50So we have a fair bit of capacity on these PETCTs to continue to grow, whether it's the PSMA business, the amyloid brain studies or some of the other tumor specific or more complex exams that we're doing with some of these new radioactive tracers. We'll run into some capacity issues is around the CT modality because most all of our PETCT scanners today do double duty in the sense that when they're not doing the PETCT work, they're doing traditional CTs. And so to the extent that our PETCTs get busy and busier, which we hope they will with the PETCT portion of that, we'll have to offload the CT volume to additional scanners or additional capacity. Yuan ZhiManaging Director at B.Riley Securities01:19:41Yep, got it. Thanks for the helpful color. Operator01:19:46The next question comes from Jim Sidoti with Sidoti and Co. Please go ahead. Jim SidotiAnalyst at Sidoti & Company, LLC01:19:52Good morning, and thanks again for taking the time for all the q and a. Can you give us some sense on how many centers or what percentage of your 405 centers are now using DeepHealth? Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet01:20:08Well, hi Jim, nice to hear from you. Centers, none of the centers are really using the Deep Health operating system platform with anything more than one or two modules. One of those modules is, for example, TechLive. Another module that we're beginning to deploy is our new reporting tools that significantly shorten the interpretation time for our radiologists and move on to an own platform versus the platform that we license right now. And so we also are working on our contact centers, our kiosks in our imaging centers, all of these are in some way being tested, but on a case by case basis. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet01:21:09So nobody is using the full range of the potential of the DeepHealth OS in the outpatient space, even in RadNet at this point in time, because we're still tweaking some of the algorithms and protocols we use for it. But slowly but surely, every facet of what we do is being tested to improve virtually every component of, as we describe it, the patient journey, whether it's scheduling or whether it's the call ins, whether it's notifying patients of the prep that they might need for a particular exam, directions, a number of things that can be answered by chatbots and not necessarily live people. So when I was giving the example of really the scale that we're talking about, is that even a 10 improvement of reducing the call time, given 11,000,000 procedures and probably, I'm just guessing each procedure has on average maybe three or four calls. So we may be handling in the neighborhood of 40 to 50,000,000 calls a year. And as Mark pointed out, the cost of our contact centers is quite substantial. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet01:22:38But they can do additional capacity if we create these kind of efficiency tools. Jim SidotiAnalyst at Sidoti & Company, LLC01:22:47So how long do you expect it will be before you are fully implemented in your centers? Are we talking about twelve months, eighteen months? How long do you expect this Yeah, process to we're probably Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet01:23:00talking about towards the 2026 to have it fully implemented with all of these tools. So I think fifteen to eighteen months for all of the centers. There will be some of the centers and some regions that will go ahead of others, obviously, but our timetable is to not rush this because it's a heavy lift, number one. And number two, it is the platform that we think will be a one of a kind in the industry that we're gonna get a lot of traction externally for. So we wanna make certain that we test this out in an environment at scale that can truly make certain that it achieves all of the operational performance tools that we know are capable. Jim SidotiAnalyst at Sidoti & Company, LLC01:23:53Okay, and then for the second quarter, what was the same center volume increase just on an overall procedure basis? I know you called it out for some of the different modalities. But overall, what was the same center volume increase? Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet01:24:06Yes. So what we started doing, Jim, is we started kind of bifurcating the reporting between advanced imaging and routine imaging. And the reason is because we do far more routine imaging by the number of procedure volumes than we do advanced imaging. It's almost a 70 five-twenty five in favor of routine imaging, but really advanced imaging, the 27.5% of the advanced imaging that we do by procedure volume provides more between 6065% of our revenue. So, it would be misleading, let's say if advanced imaging were expanding very rapidly and routine imaging warrants, the routine would skew the numbers if we did a blended rate. Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet01:25:02But to answer your question, MRI, PET CT and PET CT advanced imaging together increased about 6.6% on a blended basis for those three. MRI itself on a same center basis was up 6.6%, CT on a same center basis was up 5.9%, PET CT was up 16.2%. Routine imaging, which is ultrasound, mammo, x-ray, all other exams, that was only up, I think about 1.25%, 1.4%, it up. So, if you blend all of that together, which we're no longer doing because of this distortion, it would be about a 2.7% increase on all procedure volumes. Jim SidotiAnalyst at Sidoti & Company, LLC01:26:00Okay. All right. And then the last one for me. When you talked about the iCAD acquisition initially, you indicated they were going to have about 25 or 26 sales reps marketing your deep health. Now that the deal is closed, have you been able to keep all those folks? Jim SidotiAnalyst at Sidoti & Company, LLC01:26:23And is that a good number for us to consider for your deep health sales force? Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet01:26:32I believe, yeah, I think that's a good number for us to go with at this point in time. Again, it's only been about three weeks and we're, you know, trying to be as efficient as possible with getting to all of the people, but we think we're going to keep that entire sales force. Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet01:26:54Yeah, all of those team members have come on board and we hope and anticipate that we'll be able to keep them. Jim SidotiAnalyst at Sidoti & Company, LLC01:27:03All right. Thank you. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet01:27:07Thanks, Jim. Operator01:27:09Thank you. This concludes our question and answer session. I would like to turn the conference back over to Doctor. Howard G. Berger for closing remarks. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet01:27:20Thank you, operator. I again would like to take the opportunity to thank all of our shareholders for their continued support and in particular the employees of RadNet for their dedication and hard work to help having produced these extraordinary results in Q2. Management will continue its endeavor to be a market leader that provides great services with an appropriate return on investment for all shareholders. We are looking forward to your next call, and thank you very much for your time today. Operator01:28:06Thank you. The conference has now concluded. Thank you for attending today's presentation. You may now disconnect.Read moreParticipantsExecutivesMark StolperEVP & CFOHoward BergerChairman, President & CEOAnalystsDavid MacdonaldAnalyst at Truist SecuritiesBrian TanquilutSenior Analyst - Healthcare Services & HCIT/Digital Health Equity Research at Jefferies & Company IncJohn RansomMD & Director - Healthcare Research at Raymond James FinancialAndrew MokDirector at BarclaysLarry SolowPartner & Managing director - Equity Analyst at CJS SecuritiesYuan ZhiManaging Director at B.Riley SecuritiesJim SidotiAnalyst at Sidoti & Company, LLCPowered by Earnings DocumentsPress Release(8-K)Quarterly report(10-Q) RadNet Earnings HeadlinesRadNet, Inc. (NASDAQ:RDNT) Q2 2025 Earnings Call TranscriptAugust 12 at 5:42 PM | msn.comRadNet (NASDAQ:RDNT) & Ontrak (NASDAQ:OTRK) Head to Head AnalysisAugust 12 at 2:51 AM | americanbankingnews.comGenerate up to $5,000/month with 10X less money?The secret to retiring without a million-dollar nest egg. I'm talking about generating enough monthly income to cover housing, healthcare, food, and fun... With a fraction of what you probably think you need.August 14 at 2:00 AM | Investors Alley (Ad)RadNet rises 16.8%August 12 at 2:26 AM | msn.comRadNet Posts Better-Than-Expected Earnings, Joins Tegna, MeridianLink, Lithium Argentina And Other Big Stocks Moving Higher On MondayAugust 12 at 2:26 AM | benzinga.comRadNet, Inc. (RDNT) Q2 2025 Earnings Call TranscriptAugust 11 at 1:05 PM | seekingalpha.comSee More RadNet Headlines Get Earnings Announcements in your inboxWant to stay updated on the latest earnings announcements and upcoming reports for companies like RadNet? Sign up for Earnings360's daily newsletter to receive timely earnings updates on RadNet and other key companies, straight to your email. Email Address About RadNetRadNet (NASDAQ:RDNT), together with its subsidiaries, provides outpatient diagnostic imaging services in the United States. The company operates in two segments: Imaging Centers and Artificial Intelligence. Its services include magnetic resonance imaging, computed tomography, positron emission tomography, nuclear medicine, mammography, ultrasound, diagnostic radiology, fluoroscopy, and other related procedures, as well as multi-modality imaging services. The company also develops and sells computerized systems that distribute, display, store, and retrieve digital images; offers picture archiving communications systems and related services; and develops and deploys AI suites to enhance radiologist interpretation of breast, lung, and prostate images, as well as AI solutions for prostate cancer screening. RadNet, Inc. was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.View RadNet ProfileRead more More Earnings Resources from MarketBeat Earnings Tools Today's Earnings Tomorrow's Earnings Next Week's Earnings Upcoming Earnings Calls Earnings Newsletter Earnings Call Transcripts Earnings Beats & Misses Corporate Guidance Earnings Screener Earnings By Country U.S. Earnings Reports Canadian Earnings Reports U.K. Earnings Reports Latest Articles Brinker Serves Up Earnings Beat, Sidesteps Cost PressuresWhy BigBear.ai Stock's Dip on Earnings Can Be an Opportunity CrowdStrike Faces Valuation Test Before Key Earnings ReportPost-Earnings, How Does D-Wave Stack Up Against Quantum Rivals?Why SoundHound AI's Earnings Show the Stock Can Move HigherAirbnb Beats Earnings, But the Growth Story Is Losing AltitudeDutch Bros Just Flipped the Script With a Massive Earnings Beat Upcoming Earnings Palo Alto Networks (8/18/2025)Home Depot (8/19/2025)Medtronic (8/19/2025)Analog Devices (8/20/2025)Synopsys (8/20/2025)Lowe's Companies (8/20/2025)TJX Companies (8/20/2025)Intuit (8/21/2025)Workday (8/21/2025)Alibaba Group (8/21/2025) Get 30 Days of MarketBeat All Access for Free Sign up for MarketBeat All Access to gain access to MarketBeat's full suite of research tools. Start Your 30-Day Trial MarketBeat All Access Features Best-in-Class Portfolio Monitoring Get personalized stock ideas. Compare portfolio to indices. Check stock news, ratings, SEC filings, and more. Stock Ideas and Recommendations See daily stock ideas from top analysts. Receive short-term trading ideas from MarketBeat. Identify trending stocks on social media. Advanced Stock Screeners and Research Tools Use our seven stock screeners to find suitable stocks. Stay informed with MarketBeat's real-time news. Export data to Excel for personal analysis. Sign in to your free account to enjoy these benefits In-depth profiles and analysis for 20,000 public companies. Real-time analyst ratings, insider transactions, earnings data, and more. Our daily ratings and market update email newsletter. Sign in to your free account to enjoy all that MarketBeat has to offer. Sign In Create Account Your Email Address: Email Address Required Your Password: Password Required Log In or Sign in with Facebook Sign in with Google Forgot your password? Your Email Address: Please enter your email address. Please enter a valid email address Choose a Password: Please enter your password. Your password must be at least 8 characters long and contain at least 1 number, 1 letter, and 1 special character. Create My Account (Free) or Sign in with Facebook Sign in with Google By creating a free account, you agree to our terms of service. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
PresentationSkip to Participants Operator00:00:00Good day, and welcome to RadNet, Inc. Second Quarter twenty twenty five Financial Results Conference Call. Operator00:00:07All participants will be in a listen only mode. Should you need assistance, please signal a conference specialist by pressing the star key followed by zero. After today's presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. To ask a question, you may press star then 1 on a touch tone phone. To withdraw your question, please press star then 2. Operator00:00:29Please note this event is being recorded. I would like now like to turn the conference over to mister Mark Solper, executive vice president and chief financial officer of RadNet. Please go ahead. Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet00:00:43Thank you. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and thank you for joining Doctor. Howard Berger and me today to discuss RadNet's second quarter twenty twenty five financial results. Before we begin today, we'd like to remind everyone of the Safe Harbor statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. This presentation contains forward looking statements within the meaning of The U. Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet00:01:09S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Specifically, statements concerning anticipated future financial and operating performance, RadNet's ability to continue to grow the business by generating patient referrals and contracts with radiology practices, recruiting and retaining technologists, receiving third party reimbursement for diagnostic imaging services, successfully integrating acquired operations, generating revenue and adjusted EBITDA for the acquired operations as estimated, among others, are forward looking statements within the meaning of the Safe Harbor. Forward looking statements are based on management's current preliminary expectations and are subject to risks and uncertainties, which may cause RadNet's actual results to differ materially from the statements contained herein. These risks and uncertainties include those risks set forth in RadNet's reports filed with the SEC from time to time, including RadNet's annual report on Form 10 ks for the year ended 12/31/2024. Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet00:02:21Undue reliance should not be placed on forward looking statements, especially guidance on future financial performance, which speaks only as of the date it is made. RadNet undertakes no obligation to update publicly any forward looking statements to reflect new information, events or circumstances after the date they were made or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events. And with that, I'd like to turn the call over to Doctor. Berger. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet00:02:53Thank you, Mark. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us today. On today's call, Mark and I plan to provide you with highlights from our second quarter twenty twenty five results, give you more insight into factors which affected this performance, and discuss our future strategy. After our prepared remarks, we will open the call to your questions. I'd like to thank all of you for your interest in our company and for dedicating a portion of your day to participate in our conference call this morning. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet00:03:23Let's begin. I am very pleased with the performance in the second quarter. After experiencing significant disruption in the business during the first quarter of this year as a result of the California wildfires and severe winter weather conditions in the Northeast and markets, in the second quarter, business rebounded and we achieved record quarterly revenue and adjusted EBITDA. Relative to last year's second quarter, total company revenue increased 8.4% to a quarterly record $498,200,000 and digital health segment revenue increased 30.9% to a quarterly record of $20,700,000 Contributing to core imaging center revenue growth were a variety of factors. First, industry trends continue to provide tailwinds. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet00:04:26Imaging technology advances in equipment, post processing software, artificial intelligence, contrast materials and nuclear isotopes continue to drive increased utilization of diagnostic imaging within healthcare in general. Furthermore, within this growing industry, the shift of procedural volumes away from the more expensive hospital alternatives to more cost effective ambulatory freestanding centers continues. Second, improvement continues in reimbursement rates with commercial and capitated payers that recognize the position RadNet offers as a lower priced alternative to hospital based imaging. To this end, we have been successful in receiving rate increases for many of the larger commercial payers and several capitated contracts have been converted to higher paying fee for service relationships. Lastly, and perhaps most importantly, the focus has been on driving more advanced imaging procedures, MRI, CT and PETCT, and increasing advanced imaging capacity through a variety of initiatives. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet00:05:42Advanced imaging has a higher per procedure pricing and typically better margins. During the second quarter of this year, advanced imaging as a percentage of total procedures increased to 27.5% from 26.5% in last year's same quarter, an improvement of 102 basis points. This increase is due in part to initiatives that have been identified within each of these modalities. For example, within MRI, the 9% aggregate and 6.6% same center growth in the second quarter as compared with last year's second quarter is partially the result of capacity created from investments made in MRI software upgrades and operating protocols, which enable shorter scan times. The shorter scan times allow for the scheduling of more patients in the same hours of operation. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet00:06:47Within CT, programs have been expanded on both coasts to offer more complex procedures. An example of this is cardiac CT angiography, which is growing rapidly and which in some cases are enhanced with reimbursed artificial intelligence assisted analytics. Within PETCT, emphasis has been on newer diagnostic and screening offerings for prostate cancer, Alzheimer's disease, dementia, and new procedures with leading edge tumor specific radioactive tracer. PETCT has been the fastest growing procedure. This quarter PETCT increased 22.4% on aggregate basis and 16.2% on a same center basis as compared with last year's second quarter. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet00:07:44The increase in advanced imaging, MRI, has also been driven by the implementation of TechLive, our remote screening technology recently cleared by the FDA. TechLive is a vendor agnostic integrated solution enabling remote scanning of MRI, CT, PET CT and ultrasound procedures. Amidst tech labor shortages and inflationary wage pressure, TechWise empowers technologists to scan for multiple locations, enables improved operational efficiency, extends center operating hours, and enhances access to complex procedures. The most significant impact we are experiencing with TechLive is its ability to expand hours of operation by staffing exam rooms, which previously would have been closed. As an example, in a pilot deployment at 64 locations inside of RadNet's New York area facilities, TechWise significantly contributed to a 42% decrease in MRI room closures and during the 2025 as compared with the same period of 2024. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet00:09:13Currently more than 300 of RadNet's MR, CT, PET CT and ultrasound systems are connected with DeepHealth's TechLive solution and are targeting to substantially all of RadNet's advanced imaging equipment to be connected with TechLive in early twenty twenty six. The strong revenue growth from all the factors just discussed, and in particular the initiatives driving more advanced imaging, along with cost effective management contributed to the record adjusted EBITDA and margin expansion in the quarter. Adjusted EBITDA during the 2025 increased by 12.3% to a quarterly record of $81,200,000 up from $72,300,000 in last year's second quarter. And adjusted EBITDA margin increased to 16.3% during the 2025, which compares with 15.7% in last year's second quarter, an improvement of almost 60 basis points. The strong operating results in the second quarter relative to our internal budget resulted in the decision to increase 2025 full year guidance ranges for revenue and adjusted EBITDA. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet00:10:39Mark will discuss this in more detail in his prepared remarks. Steady progress also continues in the digital health operating segment. The EBCD, Deep Health AI powered breast cancer screening program continues to expand. Currently, we are experiencing a blended adoption rate nationally approaching forty five percent with more cancers being found across RadNet centers, which otherwise might have been detected at a much later date. On July 17, the previously announced acquisition of iCAD, a global leader in clinically proven AI powered breast health solutions was completed. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet00:11:29ICAD's ProFound Breast Health Suite and RadNet's Deep Health AI powered screening solutions together can materially expand and improve patient diagnosis and outcomes on a global basis through further enabling accuracy and early detection. With over 1,500 healthcare provider locations facilitating over 8,000,000 annual mammograms in 50 countries, iCAD's installed base and strong sales, engineering and marketing capabilities will provide immediate, broad and valuable customer relationships and commercialization capabilities that can accelerate deep health objectives. On June 4, the acquisition of C Mode Technology, a global innovator in AI for ultrasound imaging was completed. CMODE's initial applications to detect and characterize thyroid nodules and breast lesions in ultrasound imaging improve diagnostic accuracy and enhance clinical workflows. With the inherent complexity of ultrasound imaging and its dependency on the individual capabilities of the technologists and radiologists, the opportunity to improve care through AI is significant. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet00:12:55With demand exceeding available appointment slots for many of the 900 ultrasound units in three twenty six of our locations, the increase in capacity created by CMOs technology should improve our ability to drive better access and more revenue through RadNet's existing centers. Early deployment of CMOS FDA approved thyroid ultrasound artificial intelligence across 83 of the imaging centers has demonstrated up to 30% reduction in scan time, And it is anticipated that C Mode will be fully implemented in the remaining centers by the end of the 2026. Furthermore, a reimbursement code already exists that makes a portion of our approximately 250,000 annual thyroid ultrasound eligible for additional reimbursement. An initiative is ongoing to pursue FDA approval for CMODE's next application in breast AI ultrasound, which constitutes over 600,000 of RADNet's approximately 2.7 annually ultrasound exams performed. While initial focus will be on the implementation within RadNet, these technologies will also be sold and marketed by the Digital Health Division to third parties as the offerings are further commercialized. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet00:14:29Finally, financial liquidity and leverage continues to be carefully managed. As of 06/30/2025, our cash balance was $833,000,000 and net debt to adjusted EBITDA ratio was 0.96. An attractive pipeline of acquisition opportunities are being evaluated for both the core imaging services division and for digital health. And we have confidence in our ability to invest the cash balance over time and opportunities that advance RADNet's strategic objectives. At this time, I'd like to turn the call back over to Mark to discuss some of the highlights of our second quarter twenty twenty five performance. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet00:15:19When he is finished, I will make some closing remarks. Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet00:15:24Thank you, Howard. I'm now going to briefly review our second quarter twenty twenty five performance and attempt to highlight what I believe to be some material items. I will also give some further explanation of certain items in our financial statements as well as provide some insights in some of the metrics that drove our second quarter performance. I will also provide an update to 2025 financial guidance levels, which were released in conjunction with our 2024 year end results in February and amended following our first quarter financial results in May. In my discussion, I will use the term adjusted EBITDA, which is a non GAAP financial measure. Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet00:16:07The company defines adjusted EBITDA as earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization and excludes losses or gains on the disposal of equipment, other income or loss, loss on debt extinguishment and non cash equity compensation. Adjusted EBITDA includes equity and earnings in unconsolidated operations and subtracts allocations of earnings to non controlling interest in subsidiaries and is adjusted for non cash or extraordinary and one time items taken place during the period. A full quantitative reconciliation of adjusted EBITDA to net income or loss attributable to RadNet income and shareholders is included in our earnings release. With that said, I'd now like to review our second quarter twenty twenty five results. As Doctor. Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet00:17:03Berger highlighted in his remarks, our business bounced back in the second quarter nicely, recovering to more anticipated levels following the California wildfires and severe winter weather conditions in the Northeast that significantly impacted us in the first quarter of this year. In the second quarter, we returned to the type of growth we have been demonstrating over the last several years. Our results were highlighted by strong performance and growth in advanced imaging, which is being driven by many of the initiatives that Doctor. Berger discussed. Advanced imaging grew 9% in aggregate and 6.6% on the same center basis relative to last year's second quarter. Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet00:17:47PETCT, which continues to be our fastest growing modality, grew 22.4 in aggregate and 16.2% on a same center basis, predominantly on the growth of PSMA and amyloid brain studies. The disproportional growth in advanced imaging relative to routine imaging has been a steady trend and continues to help us absorb the inflationary pressure we and the rest of the industry have been feeling with respect to the availability and rising costs of labor, especially as it pertains to radiology technologists. We believe there is continued opportunities for margin improvement as a result of driving more advanced imaging in our centers and through the implementation of many of the software tools offered by the Digital Health Division. During the quarter, we opened one new facility in New Brunswick, New Jersey and have nine additional facilities that we are targeting to open by the end of the year, which includes three joint venture facilities and six wholly owned locations. These de novo openings will give us the necessary capacity to support the heavy diagnostic imaging demand in our markets and should enable us to continue similar organic growth into the future. Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet00:19:13For the 2025, RadNet reported total company revenue of $498,200,000 and adjusted EBITDA of $81,200,000 both quarterly records. Revenue increased $38,500,000 or 8.4% and adjusted EBITDA increased $8,900,000 or 12.3% as compared with 2024. The combination of the strong top line growth and our ability to manage operating costs effectively caused EBITDA margins to improve by 57 basis points relative to last year's second quarter. The digital health segment reported revenue of $20,700,000 a 30.9% increase from last year's second quarter. Breaking this down further, AI revenue within digital health increased 21.6% from a combination of growing the EBCD program revenue and through expanded licensing of DeepHealth lung, prostate and neuro solutions primarily in Europe. Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet00:20:24Radiology software revenue within digital health grew 36.1% relative to last year's second quarter from a combination of internal revenue from RadNet imaging centers adopting further elements of DeepHealth OS, including certain contact center software and TechLive as well as from external sales of workflow software solutions. We continue to make important investments in sales, marketing, development, customer support and implementation teams necessary to support anticipated growth over the next five years. Despite these investments in infrastructure related operating expenses, EBITDA for digital health grew 4.1% over last year's second quarter. As Doctor. Berger mentioned, we finished the 2025 with a strong cash and liquidity position. Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet00:21:24At quarter end, we had $833,000,000 of cash on the balance sheet, full availability of a $282,000,000 credit facility and a term loan that is priced at SOFR plus two twenty five basis points reflective of the refinancing transaction we completed last April and the repricing transaction we completed last November. Continued improvements in revenue cycle have driven down DSOs or days sales outstanding to thirty two point four days, slightly lower than where we were at this time last year. With regards to our financial leverage as of 03/31/2025, unadjusted for bond and term loan discounts, we had $264,600,000 of net debt, which is our total debt at par value less our cash balance. Note that this debt includes RadNet's ownership percentage of New Jersey Imaging Network's net debt of $36,200,000 for which RadNet is neither a borrower nor guarantor. At quarter end, our net debt to adjusted EBITDA leverage was slightly less than one times. Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet00:22:38Given the strong second quarter results of the positive trends we continue to experience, we elected to increase revenue and adjusted EBITDA guidance for imaging center business. We increased revenue by $15,000,000 at the low and high ends of the guidance ranges and increased adjusted EBITDA by $3,000,000 at the low and high end of the ranges. We also increased our capital expenditure guidance range by $7,000,000 which is reflective of additional growth investment opportunities we plan to pursue in the second half of the year. Otherwise, all guidance ranges for imaging center segment remain unchanged. For Digital Health, we plan to update guidance ranges upon announcing our third quarter results in November. Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet00:23:29This update will reflect contributions from the iCAD and CMODE transactions and incorporate any other information about the operating segment we have at that time. At that time, we should have a much better sense as to how the integration of iCAD and C Mode is progressing as well as each's revenue contribution for the second half of the year. I'll now take a few minutes to give you an update on 2026 anticipated Medicare reimbursement rates. As a reminder, Medicare represents about 23% of our business mix. With respect to Medicare reimbursement, several weeks ago we received a matrix for proposed rates by CPT code, which is typically part of the physician fee schedule proposal that is released about this time every year. Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet00:24:23We have completed an initial analysis and compared those proposed rates to our current 2025 rates And we volume weighted our analysis using expected 2026 procedure volumes. In the proposed rule, Medicare is proposing increasing the conversion factor in the Medicare fee schedule by 3.3% from $32.35 to $33.42 along with certain changes to the RVUs or relative value units of specific radiology CPT procedure codes and to the Medicare geographic practice cost indices or GIPCs. Our initial analysis of all these moving parts of the proposal indicates that RadNet on roughly $1,900,000,000 in revenue will benefit from approximately 4 to $5,000,000 Medicare revenue uplift in 2026. We are very pleased that we will likely be getting this modest increase next year after about five years of annual cuts to Medicare reimbursement, including in 2025 when we have absorbed and are continuing to absorb about a 7 to $8,000,000 cut. We hope that this is a recognition from CMS that it must compensate providers appropriately and that its reimbursement should be commensurate with the rising cost of providing services. Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet00:26:00The Medicare physician fee final rule is expected to be released on or about 11/01/2025. There's no assurance that the final rule will be consistent with this proposal. On our third quarter financial results call in November, we hope to be able to provide more certainty around 2026 Medicare rates. I'd now like to turn the call back over to Doctor. Berger, who will make some closing remarks. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet00:26:32Thank you, Mark. The diagnostic imaging industry has entered a period of transformation. Traditionally, diagnostic imaging has relied primarily on manual processes and labor to complete most aspects of services. The manual nature of the industry has historically leaned heavily on the availability of skilled labor for all clinical aspects of the patient journey, as well as for performing all the requisite non patient facing support functions, including scheduling, pre authorization, insurance verification, revenue cycle, coding, just to name a few. More recently, quantum leaps in computing power, machine learning, and artificial intelligence have demonstrated the possibilities for the future of the industry. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet00:27:37Having under one roof, the largest scale imaging services business in The United States and a leading radiology focused digital health segment that is building innovative workflow and clinical solutions, RadNet is at the nexus of this industry's transformation. Over the past five years, RadNet has been investing in both clinical and operational artificial intelligence. Within clinical or predictive AI, the focus of our investments and development efforts are in two areas. The first is in the development of interpretive AI solutions focused on population health screening. Today, the diagnostic imaging industry principally performs procedures on patients who are already symptomatic, sick, or injured. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet00:28:35In contrast, the solutions being developed in breast, lung and prostate are designed to lower the cost and increase the effectiveness of diagnostic imaging based screening tools to detect diseases earlier when better patient outcomes are achievable. Launching the EBCD AI powered breast screening program, working with the NHS in The UK to implement the targeted lung health check program, and beginning an MRI based AI powered prostate screening program are examples of what is possible in diagnostic imaging based population health. The second area of RadNet's clinical AI and technology investment is in AI tools that can make the clinical staff, technologists and radiologists more productive. Two examples of these are the recent purchase of C Mode and the recently FDA cleared TechLive solution. In regards to C technology eliminates certain manual processes of technologists and radiologists in conjunction with commonly performed thyroid and breast ultrasound exam, thereby increasing center level productivity by reducing scanning times and creating valuable scanning capacity. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet00:30:06TechLive, as we discussed earlier, reduces exam room closures from insufficient staffing and allows for the expansion of hours of operations, thereby also helping to create screening capacity, excuse me, scanning capacity. Within operational or generative AI, the focus has been on developing the DeepHealth OS, a comprehensive end to end cloud native operations and image management solution designed to automate many of the manual functions that are currently performed throughout the diagnostic imaging workflow. RADMIT's performance in the second quarter reflected some of the early benefits from these strategic technological initiatives and investment in both clinical and operational AI. During the quarter, revenue was enhanced from the clinical investment in screening programs from breast, lung and prostate, and from the early deployment of TechLive. In addition, costs were reduced and margins were improved from some of the early implementation of certain deep health OS modules at selected RadNet centers. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet00:31:30In the coming quarters, we will continue to expand all of these programs within RadNet centers and we'll be more actively marketing the digital health solutions to external customers, including some of our existing health system joint venture partners and current customers of our legacy ERAD software solutions. We look forward to updating you on our progress in the coming months. Operator, we are now ready for the question and answer portion of the call. Operator00:32:03Thank you. We will now begin the question and answer session. To ask a question, you may press star then one on your touch tone phone. If you are using a speakerphone, please pick up your handset before pressing the keys. If at any time your question has been addressed and you would like to withdraw your question, please press star then 2. Operator00:32:35The first question comes from David McNaughlin with Tudorish. Please go ahead. David MacdonaldAnalyst at Truist Securities00:32:41Good morning, everyone. Just a couple of questions. First, can you guys just talk a little bit about once all of this is kind of fully rolled out in 2026 between the capacity you're adding with de novos, with the TechLives and C modes of the world and also just the improvement in the underlying technology and quicker throughput. Can you give us some sense or just talk in more detail about either how much incremental capacity anticipate having or just the incremental leverage around your in place labor force? Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet00:33:17Good morning, David. Thanks for joining us. Well, I think I can perhaps at this time answer by example, some of which I gave in our prepared remarks. If we take a look, for example, at our New York market where we have probably the greatest demand and some of the greatest challenges from a staffing standpoint, we were able to reduce the number of hours that our centers were forced to close, not close, but certain modalities were unable to have scheduled patients by 40%. I'm talking primarily about MRI at this time since that's the most complete or larger amount of the modality with the largest amount of tech live adoption. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet00:34:18That is a substantial improvement that has created capacity by expanding hours. And so, expanding hours and creating that capacity can only you can only realize the benefit if you have the demand for procedures that will allow you to fill those now available slots. That's why we chose to introduce this into the greater New York City marketplace because of the enormous number of the volume of procedures that we do and the demand that we have. So, I think that's a good measure for us on looking at just the impact of TechLive! Which is primarily one that allows us to open rooms that would otherwise have been closed. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet00:35:24And if we use that as a benchmark for what we would anticipate elsewhere, I think that that's a reasonable assumption. So that in and of itself was creating 40% improvement in capacity for those centers that had rooms closed. If we were to take a particular day that we might have closed two hours or may have been capable of opening two hours more and being able to do three patients on average per hour, that would be six per day. So if you have the demand to fill those slots, I think you can do some of the math to see what the potential improvement there. And another example that I'll give you, which is more related to equipment upgrades, we have been able to take some of our MRI scanners and upgrade the software that allows for faster processing of the imaging and therefore reducing the amount of time that the patient has to spend on the scanner. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet00:36:35In our West Coast marketplace, where we did an extensive amount of these upgrades and looked at those centers, we were able to create just through the investment, which is relatively nominal. If you look at the cost of an MRI scan, we're talking about 150,000 to $200,000 for the upgrade, which is all software versus a price point of closer to 1,500,000.0 for an MRI scanner. We were able to create another four to five scans per day in the same hours of operation. And again, you could do the math and see what kind of potential improvement in revenue that could generate. So, we think that that is a very good benchmark for us to use to explain some of the margin improvement. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet00:37:33While it's nice to generate more revenue, the goals that we have from what we're already doing as well as what we have planned, which is more difficult to measure at this point until more of the Deep Health OS system is actually tested, implemented and operationalized could have the kind of margin improvement that we've already demonstrated and then some. But we're talking about something that is gonna take another twelve months to become fully implemented. But suffice it to say two important things from maybe a little longer answer, David, than you expected. But number one is increasing capacity with limited investment is clearly a driver of margin improvement. The other is really completing the process of something that would be transformative for the entire patient journey, which could have even more profound impact once we're able to fully implement it and make certain that the tools give us the results that we anticipate. David MacdonaldAnalyst at Truist Securities00:38:52And then guys, go just a couple of ahead, I'm sorry. Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet00:38:55No, I was going to just add one more thing to Doctor. Berger's answer, is to say that this year in 2025, we are targeting to build 11 facilities and we've opened two thus far. We've got nine that are on the docket for the second half of the year to open. And we have 11 projects in the works for additional de novo facilities in 2026. So if you add those two together, you're talking about 22 additional centers on four zero five current locations. Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet00:39:33So that's about a 5% increase in centers or additional potential capacity to be filled going forward. So the combination of what we're trying to do within the existing footprint as well as expanding the existing footprint pretty substantially, I think should give us the ability to continue to drive similar types of same center procedure volume growth into the future. David MacdonaldAnalyst at Truist Securities00:40:03And then guys, just a couple of other quick ones. One, can you just give us a sense of initial feedback from the iCAD customer base, how you think about the cross selling opportunities and just as you start to put the two companies together? Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet00:40:19Well, I think we're a little bit early in that journey, David, given that we just closed and are starting to do a deeper dive into iCAD as of July 17. So we're barely three weeks into that process. What we are pleased with is the quality of the sales and marketing team, the engineers and the management team to help embrace both cross selling and most importantly, take the iCAD products along with the deep health breast AI products and put them into a more comprehensive offering. So I think it's a little early to give you more specifics other than we're very pleased with what we see so far. And I think I'll be able to make more comments on that at the end of our third quarter financial reporting. David MacdonaldAnalyst at Truist Securities00:41:24Okay, and just last one for me. Just curious, additional conversations or anything that's been prompted by some of the EBCD reimbursement announcement that you guys put out, just what you're hearing from other payers in terms of potential further expansion of coverage of that product. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet00:41:45Yeah, that's another one of those journeys that we're going to have to be patient with. But I think the announcement that we did that one of our capitated groups has now endorsed and is paying for EBCD for all their membership at no cost to their patients, should be some impetus for the other payers to recognize that the value proposition that we're talking about is rather profound. And I think putting pressure to have these kinds of screening tools, particularly I think at what I believe are very modest prices and recognize the opportunity for better outcomes is extraordinary. And I think we are having conversations with a number of the payers. It's just a matter of time until this becomes fully recognized as the state of the art here in The U. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet00:42:50S. It's adopted. But I think we're just going to have to go through the efforts of having the consumer, meaning our patients, recognize it ahead of perhaps the payers that are going to adopt it, pressure themselves on those systems to do the right thing, that is to make good medicine good business. David MacdonaldAnalyst at Truist Securities00:43:21Okay, thanks very much. Congratulations. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet00:43:25Thanks, David. Operator00:43:28The next question comes from Brian Trancullot with Jefferies. Please go ahead. Brian TanquilutSenior Analyst - Healthcare Services & HCIT/Digital Health Equity Research at Jefferies & Company Inc00:43:37Hi, good morning. Congrats on the quarter. Maybe Howard, just or Mark, to follow-up, as I think about some of these acquisitions that you've done, I mean C Mode comes up as a technology that supports the other side of the business, right, even though it runs under the digital health side. I mean, Howard, you talked about the what technology is doing to open up capacity. So if I'm just trying to quantify these things, I mean, number one, is there is this one of those things where there's enough backlog and demand that as long as you add capacity, you feel like you can add the revenue? And then when I think of C Mode, I think in the past you've said it adds like two scans a day or something like that. And running the math, I mean, it's a pretty big number. Brian TanquilutSenior Analyst - Healthcare Services & HCIT/Digital Health Equity Research at Jefferies & Company Inc00:44:18And if you can walk us through how you're thinking about that and kind of like what kind of margins should we be thinking about what these technology additions add to the business? Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet00:44:29Hi, Brian. Nice to talk to you as always. Let me couch that, Brian, using some of the examples that you've given. There's actually three ways that we see C Mode in particular with their thyroid ultrasound AI benefiting us and which really was the decision to acquire CMODE as opposed to just license it. The first is looking at the radiologist. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet00:45:02Thyroid ultrasound is perhaps one of the most difficult and consuming from a time standpoint diagnostic procedure that is done in all of radiology. And it's extraordinarily manually intensive for the radiologist as well as the technologist. We're quite confident that the early results of improved interpretation for the thyroid ultrasound can be reduced perhaps as much by fifty percent. And that's after a pretty substantial trial that we've done in the initial implementation. So, that will create a lot of additional capacity for our radiologists to help manage the turnaround time for reporting and for us to have to use less outside teleradiology services to satisfy the demand that we have. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet00:46:09On the technologist side of it and the equipment side of it, the early reporting is that we can reduce at least 30% of the scan time, which means that the normal amount of time that we are the traditional amount of time that we allocate for doing an ultrasound of any kind is about thirty minutes. If we can reduce that by 30%, which is what we're showing initially, that's a pretty substantial reduction and potentially could give us one to two more slots per hour per system. Now, again, much like I was describing with MRI, number one, do you have that capacity, meaning the demand to fill the capacity if you create it? And number two, will that happen on every ultrasound unit? And the answer to that is probably no, because not every piece of ultrasound equipment that we have functions at that same level of intensity like our busiest centers. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet00:47:18But in those busier centers, I'll go back, we have over 900 ultrasounds in 300, and I think the number was 28 centers, and about 30% of those, 25 or 30% now have the C mode. And we're putting those into the centers where we have the biggest challenges. So what this will allow us to do in those centers that have the extraordinary demand. Ultrasound has always been one of the most sought after imaging modalities, and it's growing perhaps more rapidly than almost any other procedure that we have, is the one that became a major focus for us as we went to the next imaging modality after mammography to try to create improvements in AI. So I think we'll have better statistical information on this, Brian, even very modest additional capacity. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet00:48:26And again, the issue is creating the capacity and then make certain that you adjust your scheduling to fit those that capacity needs with the demand at a particular location. Our teams on both coasts are quite confident that they will be able to do that. But like everything else, it'll be a period of adjustment because it's not just build it and they'll come. It's a matter of kind of integrating it into the entire workflow program to create that kind of success. But the math on the numbers is quite overwhelming. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet00:49:06And we think in the long run, not just what RadNet can do, but what this can do for the entire industry will help not only drive this as a sales opportunity, but will enhance our ability overall to externalize commercially our entire platform. Because all the tools that we want to build on that platform hopefully will have similar benefits either for the radiologists, the technologists or both. So it might be a little bit early for me to give more specifics. I'd rather do that when I feel we've had a better chance to do this. We just completed the CMO acquisition on June 1. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet00:49:52So, after doing some test work, we're now in full deployment to get all of the rest of the either 70 or 75% of our ultrasound scanners upgraded to the CMO technology. And it can happen fast enough. I have often said in the past, if I had if I could get enough rooms to put ultrasounds in, we could fill them. Now, at least we feel that we don't need more ultrasound systems and we don't need more text. We need more capacity on the existing systems. Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet00:50:33And I'll add one other thing to your question about the flow through and the margin. The flow through will be very substantial because we're talking about just doing more scans in the same facilities, in the same hours of operations, because essentially what CMO does is allow for shorter scanning times. And so theoretically, principal cost that would be that would come from the incremental scans that go through the same centers at the same in the same business hours is really the cost of the radiologists to read or interpret the incremental scans, which were usually runs in the 20% ish range, give or take a few points on that revenue. So it's as we've always said, most profitable growth we can have is driving more revenue through the same fixed cost base of centers. Brian TanquilutSenior Analyst - Healthcare Services & HCIT/Digital Health Equity Research at Jefferies & Company Inc00:51:31That's awesome. That sounds really good. Mark, maybe as I think about M and A capital deployment, I know you added or you tapped a credit facility during the quarter, so your cash balance is pretty is even more significant now. Just curious how you're thinking about capital deployment on the M and A front more specifically. And then I know you're building 11 de novos, so just curious how you're thinking about the cost of that and what the de novo kind of outlook is as we think about the growth algorithm going forward? Thank you. Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet00:52:05Sure. So our pipeline of opportunities has grown and I think we're more confident today than we have been in past quarters to say that we should be putting some of that capital that cash balance to work in the second half of this year. So we're excited about that. I think predominantly most of that is earmarked towards imaging center, traditional imaging center acquisitions as well as some new joint venture opportunities where we'll be putting some capital to work. And then there are a couple of digital health acquisitions that we are evaluating as well. Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet00:52:55So stay tuned, hopefully we'll be in a position to talk about some of these things publicly in the coming months. On the acquisition on the de novo side, as I mentioned, we're targeting nine new facility openings by year end. Hopefully, can get that done. And then we've got 11 additional facilities that are in various stages of development and construction that should open in 2026. Beyond that, it remains to be seen what is the opportunity. Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet00:53:32We tend to allocate our capital based upon the opportunities that exist at the time, whether it's earmarked for M and A, de novos, hospital joint ventures, etcetera. It just so happens that we see a lot of opportunity on the De Novo side today where to build substantial capacity where we've got a lot of demand in the local markets or we're not serve or we need points of access to service patient populations that we currently don't have today. We're constantly evaluating and reevaluating what the best use of our capital is. Brian TanquilutSenior Analyst - Healthcare Services & HCIT/Digital Health Equity Research at Jefferies & Company Inc00:54:12Awesome. Thank you. Congrats again. Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet00:54:14Thanks, Brian. Operator00:54:17The next question comes from John Ransom with Raymond James. Please go ahead. John RansomMD & Director - Healthcare Research at Raymond James Financial00:54:23Hey, good morning. A couple for me. Mark, as we think about M and A, and I know you had announced anything, but just directionally, how should we think about the next year currently considering in digital assets versus traditional imaging assets? Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet00:54:42Sure. I think more of the capital is going to be allocated at this point, given what we see and what we have in the pipeline towards the imaging center, the traditional services business. There are some acquisitions we're looking at on the digital health side. I think most of them are smaller than the iCAD opportunity. So, I don't necessarily see us doing something with a lot of our capital towards imaging service towards digital health at this point. Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet00:55:19Obviously, could change if something were to come to the table that's so compelling. But right now the majority of our pipeline or actionable pipeline is on the imaging services side. John RansomMD & Director - Healthcare Research at Raymond James Financial00:55:35Great. Second one for me, you know, look Mark for a state school grad, this digital health story has gotten complicated. So we're still working at figuring it out, but let's just kind of focus on for now the technology as it exists in your core imaging segment. So there are a few things going on, There's the conversion to deep health iOS. There's the remote tech, which you certainly talked a lot more about this call. John RansomMD & Director - Healthcare Research at Raymond James Financial00:56:03I mean, there's you've got a call center. I know that you spent a lot of money on, but if if we were just to dream a little bit and look out a few years, and I'm I'm not asking you for 26 guidance, but just directionally, what kind of margin could all of this unlock when you kind of fully deploy it? Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet00:56:22Well, I think the best way to answer that question is to look at some of the other radiology software providers or just SaaS based software businesses out there that where we think and we hope and we aspire to grow our digital health software business in range of 30% per year for many years to come. That doesn't mean that every year might be 30%, it could be a little lower, little higher in any given year, but that's the trajectory that we're looking for that business. And we think once mature, if you look at other SaaS based software businesses, we should have EBITDA margins approaching 50% with little capital intensity, certainly That as compared to our core imaging center John RansomMD & Director - Healthcare Research at Raymond James Financial00:57:15was a different question than I asked, appreciate that color. Now I'm asking like just on the core imaging, once you fully deploy the DeepHealth iOS, once you fully deploy remote tech, once you maybe look at some opportunities in your call center, what's the imaging EBITDA margin unlock percentage once you just start using once you fully deploy all these tools in the out years. Not not with digital health segment alone is doing, but what could this do with the core business? I'm sorry. I was unclear. Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet00:57:41Now now I understand your question. Yeah. I think, Howard, do want to take that or you want me to give a shot at? Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet00:57:50I'll give a shot at it and then you can amplify on it, Mark. Sure. Have to, John, look at not how the total would look, but what does the sum of the parts look like that will give you the total savings. And what I mean by that is our platform is a modular platform, and it allows us to look at one function, if you will, at a time, multiple if we want, but one at a time to see what kind of a potential impact going from a more manual labor intense process to a short to one that is more tech enabled, if you will. I don't want to just use the word AI, but tech enabled. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet00:58:46And, for example, in the contact centers, we look at our current typical call handling time. And right now we measure on a blended basis the average call in minutes. Obviously, some calls are shorter than others, but even if I were to use five minutes as a typical call, and I actually think it's longer than that, if we were able to get a modest 10% reduction on every call that is logged into our contact centers, that improvement is enormous when you consider that we do about 11,000,000 procedures annually, but each procedure is associated with multiple calls. Some of those calls are not to schedule a patient, but to ask for direction or to give insurance information or to ask about directions on the closest center. All of those are things that we feel we can have impact on. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet01:00:06And if you do simple math and something that I think is easily achievable, a modest 10% improvement on this, the numbers are just staggering. And for us, while it may not necessarily lead to less people we employ, we wanna make the people that we do employ that much more productive so that we can grow the volume without the dependency of continuing to have to be challenged with the labor costs and availability of labor that everybody in the industry is facing. So, I think we could do some statistics around that. We haven't as yet. But everything that we do now will have either a full or a partial component that is addressed by artificial intelligence. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet01:01:08And I named a few of those a couple of times in my prepared remarks. Maybe you could John RansomMD & Director - Healthcare Research at Raymond James Financial01:01:15tell us what you spend on your call center today? What's that cost? Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet01:01:22Yeah. Our overall call center cost for a company north of $60,000,000 a year. Okay. That includes the people, the systems, the facility rent, services that we currently use offshore. It's a very substantial. John RansomMD & Director - Healthcare Research at Raymond James Financial01:01:41Yeah, I've covered you guys for a long time. I don't think I've ever discussed the cost. Maybe I'm the last guy to the party here, but that's pretty interesting. And then lastly, Mark, you've said before, putting your centers on deep health iOS as an 8 figure good guy. I know you're just starting that process. John RansomMD & Director - Healthcare Research at Raymond James Financial01:01:57Is the goal still to have all these done by the end of the year? And do you have any obviously eight figures could be $10,000,000 or $99,000,000 So have you thought any more about narrowing that good guy as well? Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet01:02:12Yes. I mean, it's going be hard to come up with a number today. I mean, we're blazing a new path with some of these deep health or digital health initiatives. I think, we'll have a better feeling as we start just like with TechLive! As we start rolling that out and we've done a pilot, now we have a little bit better feeling for that. Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet01:02:36I think we'll as we get into our budgeting process towards the end of this year, which starts looking at what 2026 will look like, I think we'll have a better feeling for some of that. But some of these modules aren't going to be being aren't being adopted until 2026 or throughout 2026. So even if we were to come up with a big number, it's not going to happen overnight. Going to be gradual over the next few years. John RansomMD & Director - Healthcare Research at Raymond James Financial01:03:10Okay, guys. Thanks a lot. Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet01:03:13Thanks, John. Operator01:03:15The next question comes from Andrew Mok with Barclays. Please go ahead. Andrew MokDirector at Barclays01:03:21Hi, good morning. Just one question for me. Mark, I think you called out a 4,000,000 to $5,000,000 benefit from the physician fee schedule next year. I think this year's rate headwind without the doc fix was 7,000,000 to $8,000,000 and the headline rate update next year would suggest at least 4% plus and maybe a larger benefit than what you called out. So can you help us understand the items weighing on that benefit when you did the CPT analysis? Thanks. Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet01:03:47Yeah, sure. You know, we always caution every year people to just extrapolate the headline that you might read in news stories or even CMS when they give their little tables in there, because you have to go CPT code by CPT code, you have to then also incorporate the gypsies or the geographic codes based upon where in The United States you operate. And so, it's often that when it looks like a big impact one way or another, traditionally it's been a cut for us. Our cuts not quite as big as the impact it shows it. Well, it's the same thing that's happening next year on the increase where our increase is not quite as big as what the headline number says, because even though the conversion factor increased by three or is increasing by 3.3% next year for non APM, facility based Medicare fee schedule billers. Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet01:04:51When you look at the individual CPT codes, they've made a number of adjustments, particularly to the practice expense portion of the procedures where some of these RVUs are going down and some of these gypsies are going down that therefore mitigate some of that otherwise headline number benefit to us. So it's, we've done an exhaustive analysis that we do every year and we're confident in the four to five up uplift in our reimbursement next year. Andrew MokDirector at Barclays01:05:28Great, thank you. Operator01:05:32The next question comes from Larry Solow with CJS Securities. Please go ahead. Larry SolowPartner & Managing director - Equity Analyst at CJS Securities01:05:39Good morning, guys. I got a question just Howard, you get some really nice detail on the CMO kind of the strategy and it really makes sense. I'm just curious on the with iCAD, is the strategy from a high level, clearly your exposure to mammography procedures is going up by like four or five fold. Is the strategy just to upsell your AI equipment to these customers or is it a combination of the profound health breast health suite that ICAD brings along with your technologies? Can you just give us a little more color just from a high level there? Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet01:06:19Sure, Larry. The iCAD products, which is their ProFound suite, and the DeepHealth product, which is primarily our Sage DX platform or smart mammography, are really very different in some respects. And what our teams are working on already is how do we blend those into a single set of offerings to both the current RADNET customers as well as iCAD customers. But I would also like to point out that ICARE also has a couple of other products that they either have or will be getting FDA approval that we can add to the existing EBCD program that will expand the value proposition for early breast care detection. So we're still working out some of those details. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet01:07:33And again, this has only been the last three weeks that we've been able to speak directly to the various people and departments inside of iCAD. But I think you can expect both customer bases, if you will, that which ICAD brought to the table and which RadNet is bringing to the table to be beneficiaries of a more comprehensive solution, not only for the mammography that we're doing here in The United States, but I can't I want to point out has a substantial number of customers outside The United States, primarily in Europe, that we think some of our other products in the deep health program, or just in mammography will gain a lot of traction. So, we're very pleased that we've done the iCAD transaction. And I think the marketplace should be pleased with that too, because I think putting these two brands together is gonna have a far greater impact on the overall value proposition of artificial intelligence and early disease detection. And I'm specifically using the word disease detection and not breast cancer detection, because some of the tools that we're looking at, things like risk assessment and breast arterial calcification are all things that fall into the category of screening, but not necessarily just for breast cancer. Larry SolowPartner & Managing director - Equity Analyst at CJS Securities01:09:12Gotcha. No, I appreciate all the color and Mark, I know you're not ready to give guidance, but just from a high level, I think when you first announced the acquisition, I think you mentioned that there was some spending that you were going to do organically that you may not have to do now as you acquire iCAD. Is that kind of build you know, you've had a couple of months at least not under the hood, but at least to plan your own internal strategies. Is that still kind of the case? Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet01:09:39Yeah, so before we announced iCAD, we had earmarked up to about $20,000,000 of additional infrastructure investments within digital health for 2025, which was the reason why we weren't going to we weren't anticipating in 2025 to see a lot of flow through on the profitability side of that business. With the iCAD acquisition, some of that investment in infrastructure, which was earmarked for sales and marketing teams, commercialization teams, deployment, customer support implementation that we're getting from the ICAD transaction and some of the talented team members that have come on board. So, I think what we're synthesizing that this quarter and in November when we release our third quarter results, we'll update the guidance for digital health, which will incorporate the revenue contributions that we see for the second half of the year from both iCAD and C mode as well as any adjustments that we might make on the profitability side, which will have this benefit that we just talked about as incorporated into the results. Larry SolowPartner & Managing director - Equity Analyst at CJS Securities01:11:06Great, thanks. I appreciate the color. Operator01:11:11The next question comes from Yuan Zi with B. Riley. Please go ahead. Yuan ZhiManaging Director at B.Riley Securities01:11:17Thank you for taking our questions and congrats on another strong quarter. With the increased utilization mentioned by multiple payers, how did that impact your conversations of the capitated contact? Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet01:11:33Are you saying I Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet01:11:35just want to make sure I understand the question. Are you asking about with the improved pricing that we're getting from some of the commercial insurance companies, is that affecting our viewpoint or our outlook on capitation? Is that Yuan ZhiManaging Director at B.Riley Securities01:11:51Yes. Yuan ZhiManaging Director at B.Riley Securities01:11:51So my question is, the multiple healthcare provider insurance companies have mentioned that they have increased utilization, including imaging and diagnostic imaging. I wonder, did they try to have those risks by signing more captivated contracts? And how does that impact your conversation of capitated contract? Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet01:12:16Got it, got it, understand. Well, look, I think, we've been in the capitation business for close to thirty years and we enjoy that business. It's predominantly a book of business that's here in California. We've managed up to almost about 2,000,000 lives at the peak of our capitation. We don't mind taking risk. Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet01:12:41With taking risk and managing risk appropriately, we've had these contracts have been very profitable for us over a number of decades. However, as you mentioned, does continue to go up in diagnostic imaging. We see that and feel that within our capitation contracts and upon renewal, we have to make sure that we're getting compensated commensurate with the efforts that and the number of procedures that were contributing to contracts and in situations where we can't, or we don't feel like we're being paid adequately and we can't get the increases that I think would allow us to continue these relationships, we flip some of these relationships over to fee for service relationships, where they're no longer obligated to send us all of these patients like they were when we were capitating for them. But because of our strong position in many of these local markets, we end up seeing most, if not all of these patients anyway under fee for service arrangements where we can get significantly better pricing. So what you've seen in our revenue over the last, I'd say four to six quarters is that our capitation revenue has come down, but our overall revenue has gone up and that's because we're taking some, we're getting increased reimbursement when we flip these contracts to fee for service relationships, and capitation arrangements that we currently still perform are being performed at rates that we think are appropriate given the other books of business that we have. Yuan ZhiManaging Director at B.Riley Securities01:14:42Got it. And then for this remote scanning solution, how quickly do you think you will be able to deploy it outside of the New York facilities? Any regulatory requirement for someone, let's say, in California to operate a machine in New York? Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet01:14:59Well, we've actually begun that process already. So technologists in Florida that are operating scanners in New York. We have technologists in Arizona that are assisting scanning in California. So we've already gone beyond the New York market. I only use the New York market because it's one of the more mature ones and it's the one where the demand issues are particularly profound. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet01:15:39So, you know, we hope to have the rest of our MRI fleet enabled with TechLive by the 2026 in that first quarter. So we're rapidly moving along that path right now. Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet01:16:01Yeah, I was going to just add Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet01:16:04We're one other also testing the ability for technologists or better techno or more capable techs to control multiple machines at one time, which while I don't know that all of our techs have the capabilities of doing this, but it will give us some additional, leverage with our labor force and will allow some of our technologists to make more money and be more productive. Yuan ZhiManaging Director at B.Riley Securities01:16:36Got it. And one last question from us, considering the rapid increase of Alzheimer related imaging, where are we in terms of the current capacity utilization for PET scan and MRI? Do you have the remaining capacity for more backlogs for utilization? Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet01:16:56Yeah, the answer to that Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet01:17:02is yes. And it's probable that the increased demand that we're seeing for MRI is in fact coming from Alzheimer's. Because once you do the PET CT and identify a candidate that might be a a patient that might be a candidate for drug treatment, you then wind up doing, I believe it is either three or four MRIs in that first year on drug treatment. So we're getting a double bang for the buck, if you will, that our MRI scanners are getting more challenged by the success that we're having in the amyloid and Alzheimer's program, which has grown dramatically here since the beginning of the year. Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet01:18:04And to your question directly on the PETCT capacity, we have a fair bit of PETCT capacity today. We're running at run rate, if you just multiply the PETCTs we completed this quarter times four, close to about 90,000 scans per year. We're doing that on about 68 or 69 pet machines nationwide, if you assume that they're open two fifty five workdays. We're talking about doing an average today of about five pet CTs per machine per day. A very busy PETCT scanner can do upwards of 15 scans per day. Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet01:18:50So we have a fair bit of capacity on these PETCTs to continue to grow, whether it's the PSMA business, the amyloid brain studies or some of the other tumor specific or more complex exams that we're doing with some of these new radioactive tracers. We'll run into some capacity issues is around the CT modality because most all of our PETCT scanners today do double duty in the sense that when they're not doing the PETCT work, they're doing traditional CTs. And so to the extent that our PETCTs get busy and busier, which we hope they will with the PETCT portion of that, we'll have to offload the CT volume to additional scanners or additional capacity. Yuan ZhiManaging Director at B.Riley Securities01:19:41Yep, got it. Thanks for the helpful color. Operator01:19:46The next question comes from Jim Sidoti with Sidoti and Co. Please go ahead. Jim SidotiAnalyst at Sidoti & Company, LLC01:19:52Good morning, and thanks again for taking the time for all the q and a. Can you give us some sense on how many centers or what percentage of your 405 centers are now using DeepHealth? Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet01:20:08Well, hi Jim, nice to hear from you. Centers, none of the centers are really using the Deep Health operating system platform with anything more than one or two modules. One of those modules is, for example, TechLive. Another module that we're beginning to deploy is our new reporting tools that significantly shorten the interpretation time for our radiologists and move on to an own platform versus the platform that we license right now. And so we also are working on our contact centers, our kiosks in our imaging centers, all of these are in some way being tested, but on a case by case basis. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet01:21:09So nobody is using the full range of the potential of the DeepHealth OS in the outpatient space, even in RadNet at this point in time, because we're still tweaking some of the algorithms and protocols we use for it. But slowly but surely, every facet of what we do is being tested to improve virtually every component of, as we describe it, the patient journey, whether it's scheduling or whether it's the call ins, whether it's notifying patients of the prep that they might need for a particular exam, directions, a number of things that can be answered by chatbots and not necessarily live people. So when I was giving the example of really the scale that we're talking about, is that even a 10 improvement of reducing the call time, given 11,000,000 procedures and probably, I'm just guessing each procedure has on average maybe three or four calls. So we may be handling in the neighborhood of 40 to 50,000,000 calls a year. And as Mark pointed out, the cost of our contact centers is quite substantial. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet01:22:38But they can do additional capacity if we create these kind of efficiency tools. Jim SidotiAnalyst at Sidoti & Company, LLC01:22:47So how long do you expect it will be before you are fully implemented in your centers? Are we talking about twelve months, eighteen months? How long do you expect this Yeah, process to we're probably Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet01:23:00talking about towards the 2026 to have it fully implemented with all of these tools. So I think fifteen to eighteen months for all of the centers. There will be some of the centers and some regions that will go ahead of others, obviously, but our timetable is to not rush this because it's a heavy lift, number one. And number two, it is the platform that we think will be a one of a kind in the industry that we're gonna get a lot of traction externally for. So we wanna make certain that we test this out in an environment at scale that can truly make certain that it achieves all of the operational performance tools that we know are capable. Jim SidotiAnalyst at Sidoti & Company, LLC01:23:53Okay, and then for the second quarter, what was the same center volume increase just on an overall procedure basis? I know you called it out for some of the different modalities. But overall, what was the same center volume increase? Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet01:24:06Yes. So what we started doing, Jim, is we started kind of bifurcating the reporting between advanced imaging and routine imaging. And the reason is because we do far more routine imaging by the number of procedure volumes than we do advanced imaging. It's almost a 70 five-twenty five in favor of routine imaging, but really advanced imaging, the 27.5% of the advanced imaging that we do by procedure volume provides more between 6065% of our revenue. So, it would be misleading, let's say if advanced imaging were expanding very rapidly and routine imaging warrants, the routine would skew the numbers if we did a blended rate. Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet01:25:02But to answer your question, MRI, PET CT and PET CT advanced imaging together increased about 6.6% on a blended basis for those three. MRI itself on a same center basis was up 6.6%, CT on a same center basis was up 5.9%, PET CT was up 16.2%. Routine imaging, which is ultrasound, mammo, x-ray, all other exams, that was only up, I think about 1.25%, 1.4%, it up. So, if you blend all of that together, which we're no longer doing because of this distortion, it would be about a 2.7% increase on all procedure volumes. Jim SidotiAnalyst at Sidoti & Company, LLC01:26:00Okay. All right. And then the last one for me. When you talked about the iCAD acquisition initially, you indicated they were going to have about 25 or 26 sales reps marketing your deep health. Now that the deal is closed, have you been able to keep all those folks? Jim SidotiAnalyst at Sidoti & Company, LLC01:26:23And is that a good number for us to consider for your deep health sales force? Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet01:26:32I believe, yeah, I think that's a good number for us to go with at this point in time. Again, it's only been about three weeks and we're, you know, trying to be as efficient as possible with getting to all of the people, but we think we're going to keep that entire sales force. Mark StolperEVP & CFO at RadNet01:26:54Yeah, all of those team members have come on board and we hope and anticipate that we'll be able to keep them. Jim SidotiAnalyst at Sidoti & Company, LLC01:27:03All right. Thank you. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet01:27:07Thanks, Jim. Operator01:27:09Thank you. This concludes our question and answer session. I would like to turn the conference back over to Doctor. Howard G. Berger for closing remarks. Howard BergerChairman, President & CEO at RadNet01:27:20Thank you, operator. I again would like to take the opportunity to thank all of our shareholders for their continued support and in particular the employees of RadNet for their dedication and hard work to help having produced these extraordinary results in Q2. Management will continue its endeavor to be a market leader that provides great services with an appropriate return on investment for all shareholders. We are looking forward to your next call, and thank you very much for your time today. Operator01:28:06Thank you. The conference has now concluded. Thank you for attending today's presentation. You may now disconnect.Read moreParticipantsExecutivesMark StolperEVP & CFOHoward BergerChairman, President & CEOAnalystsDavid MacdonaldAnalyst at Truist SecuritiesBrian TanquilutSenior Analyst - Healthcare Services & HCIT/Digital Health Equity Research at Jefferies & Company IncJohn RansomMD & Director - Healthcare Research at Raymond James FinancialAndrew MokDirector at BarclaysLarry SolowPartner & Managing director - Equity Analyst at CJS SecuritiesYuan ZhiManaging Director at B.Riley SecuritiesJim SidotiAnalyst at Sidoti & Company, LLCPowered by