Hospitals fund new medical technology from the same budget as everything else, so an expensive device must be justified by reimbursement or offset by cuts elsewhere. You need solid evidence that it improves outcomes and a complete reimbursement package to make the numbers work.
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You're, you're, you're, you're gonna have to tap into the same dollars everybody else is. There's not a special, hey, this thing is unique and cutting edge, especially now in this environment. It's gotta make it, it's gotta figure out, is it gonna carve something out? That's where I think it's important to be able to, to, I think Mark or somebody asked the question about putting a complete package together, doing your homework and understanding that if you're gonna make a reimbursement claim, for instance, that's gonna offset it. And because here's the thing, I mean, we're not afraid to spend money on new cutting edge technology, but if it doesn't come with reimbursement or then it, then, then it, it's a negative. I mean, it's, we'll invest in it because it's a positive outcome for the patient. Financially, we're going to have to offset it somewhere else. So I have to be cognizant of all the spend that is not labor-related. And that means that anything costs us something has to have an offset somewhere.