Will UConn Health consider adding an MRI machine to the freestanding UConn Health Imaging facility at 5 Munson Road? I know MRI machines are very expensive, but adding a machine that is considered “outpatient” by insurance companies may help avoid the lost revenue of having to refer this imaging out of UConn Health. 

There certainly is much validity to this suggestion, and we can take a strategic look at how to proceed with the required certificate of need process.

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