1. Market risks such as certificate of need in the state, patient demographic and historic population growth.
2. Operational risks such as historic profitability, ability to sustain or grow profitability and debt obligation.
3. Equipment risks such as age of the equipment, technology level, equipment capacity and equipment location.
4. Referring physician risks such as concentration of referral sources, ability to show growth in referring physician volume and referring physician employment at local hospitals.
5. Reimbursement risks such as concentration of payers, reliance on government payers and historical reimbursement growth.
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