The movement of percutaneous coronary interventions (PCIs) from the inpatient to outpatient case type has become somewhat of a hot topic in recent months. We work with many hospital clients across the United States to analyze and understand their specific markets; to date, hospital volume data that details inpatient and outpatient procedures and market data in states that accurately report and track outpatient data does not yet support a widespread shift of PCI volumes from the inpatient to outpatient setting. Market data often lags, and in most states, outpatient data is not reliably and cons