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Reachable Buyer Map

Prepared for Tyler Cox · Cercare Medical · September 2026
Here is the map Ana promised. Cercare sells perfusion analysis for MRI, CT and now cone-beam CT, with a stroke module, an oncology module and neurodegenerative work on top. So this page maps the US places that make those reads: the hospitals that take suspected stroke patients through the door, the smaller group that treats enough stroke to publish results, and the outpatient imaging world where tumor follow-up and memory workups happen. For each group it shows who decides and roughly how many exist. It maps the market around Cercare, not Cercare itself, and there is nothing to buy at the end of it.
Where the decision sits
Six rows. The first is every hospital with an emergency department; rows two and three are cuts inside it and are not additional hospitals. Row four is the part of that market no public register counts. Rows five and six are outpatient and count registered sites and practice records, not companies. Counts are banded on purpose.
Hospitals with an emergency department
General acute care, critical access, VA and military hospitals that run an emergency department. Every one of them receives suspected stroke patients and has to decide fast whether to treat, transfer or send to the angio suite. This is the outer edge of the stroke market.
Who decides: the Director of Radiology or Imaging Services owns the imaging stack, and the chief of neuroradiology owns how perfusion is read. Imaging informatics decides whether new software can sit on the scanner and viewer the hospital already runs. Many of these hospitals already run an AI or perfusion tool on the stroke pathway, so the first question is usually what happens to the tool already there, before the committee ever sees it.
Who signs it off: the value analysis committee, with IT security review, at most systems. At a critical access hospital the same decision often sits with the tele-stroke partner rather than the hospital itself.
About 4,300
US hospitals of these types with an emergency department, current federal hospital listing.
Hospitals treating enough stroke to publish results
Hospitals with a published federal inpatient stroke care score for 2024. The score covers one quality measure, and hospitals with too few cases do not get one, so this is a fair outline of where stroke is a real service line, usually with a coordinator and a medical director, rather than an exact count of it.
Who decides: the Stroke Program Director or Coordinator, who owns the protocol and the certification paperwork, and the stroke medical director, usually a vascular neurologist. At larger systems a VP of Neurosciences owns the service line budget.
About 1,600
hospitals with a published inpatient stroke care score for 2024. Almost all sit inside the row above.
Hospitals where the stroke read happens at volume
Hospitals that publish how fast suspected stroke patients get a head CT or MRI read in the emergency department. About 1,500 publish a result. About 330 of them logged 25 or more of these patients in the latest year, which is where imaging speed is measured, watched and argued about.
Who decides: the same stroke and neuroradiology leads, with the ED medical director at the table because the clock starts in their department.
About 330
hospitals with 25 or more suspected stroke patients in the published head CT measure, October 2024 to September 2025. Out of about 1,500 that publish it. A subset of the first row.
Thrombectomy-capable and comprehensive stroke centers
The hospitals that take a clot out in the angio suite. Your clearance in May added cone-beam CT to your MRI and CT perfusion, which opens the suite itself, a different room with different owners from CT and MRI. No federal register lists these centers. The certifying bodies publish them by name, so this row is built by name rather than counted.
Who decides: the director of neurointerventional surgery or neuroendovascular, and the manager of the interventional or angio lab, who owns the equipment and the room. The stroke program director sits across both.
No public count
not carried by any federal register, so this segment is built by name from certification listings.
Freestanding imaging and MRI centers
Outpatient centers where brain tumor follow-up scans and memory workups are done, away from the stroke clock. With the oncology clearance in June, this is a second market with its own buyers, who do not sit on a hospital value analysis committee.
Who decides: the center's medical director, usually a radiologist, and the owner or operations lead at independent centers. Multi-site imaging groups buy centrally through a VP of Operations or a chief medical officer.
About 5,600
registered imaging and MRI center sites, July 2026. One operator registers several sites, so the company count is well below this.
Radiology practices
The groups that actually read the scans, for hospitals and outpatient centers alike. A hospital can buy software and still depend on its contracted radiology group to use it, so the group is often the quiet vote in rows one to five.
Who decides: the practice president or managing partner, the neuroradiology section chief, and the practice's IT or informatics lead.
About 9,400
practice records registered as diagnostic radiology, July 2026. Groups register more than once, so read this as a ceiling on practices.
The stroke market by state
The ten states with the most hospitals publishing a stroke care score. The columns are the rows above, cut by state. They overlap, so they do not sum across.
State Hospitals with an ED Publish stroke results Stroke CT at volume Imaging center sites
California27214830576
Texas36810123890
Pennsylvania140987138
New York150908208
Florida179756888
Illinois1707413261
Ohio1326716132
North Carolina102642362
New Jersey56533275
Michigan1165211123

Where the openings are

1
About 330 hospitals are a list, not a market. These are the places where stroke imaging speed is measured at volume and the people who own it are easy to name. A list that size can be covered completely, by name, in a few months, and every conversation starts from a problem they already track.
2
The angio suite is a new door with new owners. Cone-beam perfusion gives the neurointerventional team a reason to be buyers, not just users of a CT read. They are a small, tightly networked group, which is why this row has to be built by name. The same hospital can have a yes in radiology and nobody yet talking to the suite, or the other way round.
3
Oncology and memory work sit in a different building. Freestanding imaging centers and radiology groups buy on a different cycle from hospital stroke programs and answer to owners and medical directors rather than committees. Both markets are real, and they need different motions. The practical question is which one you want a repeatable engine for first.
Built from public federal registries, pulled 18 September 2026 (hospital and stroke measures) and July 2026 (imaging sites and practice records). Counts are banded deliberately. Stroke rows include only hospitals with enough patients to publish a result. Site and practice counts are registrations, not companies. A segment with no credible public number says so rather than showing one.
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