Imaging price variation — MRI, CT scans, PET scans — is one of the most well-documented inefficiencies in employer healthcare spend. The same MRI that costs $420 at an accredited outpatient center can cost $2,400 at a hospital two miles away. Pario is built to capture that gap systematically, proactively, and without asking employees to do their own research.
The data below comes from independent research organizations — not from Pario. The opportunity exists in every self-insured employer's benefits spend right now.
The projections below use published utilization rates by industry and regional imaging pricing from CMS transparency files. We'll run your specific numbers on a demo call — these are illustrative of the range we work in.
Methodology: Utilization rates from HCCI by industry. Regional pricing from CMS machine-readable hospital and facility price transparency files. Conversion assumptions derived from published incentive-based steerage research. Actual results vary by plan, workforce, and market.
We use a 67% steerage conversion rate in our projections. Published research on incentive-based steerage programs shows conversion rates of 65–75% when employees are reached before scheduling. We use the low end. We'd rather show you a number we're confident we can beat than one we have to defend later.
We'll model your plan on the call — your industry, your region, your employee count. Takes about 10 minutes and you leave with a number you can take to your CFO.