CenterIQ

What it is

CenterIQ is a web-based financial intelligence platform for physicians, administrators and developers evaluating ambulatory surgery center and outpatient imaging center viability. It replaces consultant pro formas and static spreadsheet templates with modeling built on actual negotiated commercial rates.

The problem it solves is specific: physician groups commit millions to outpatient facilities using models built on Medicare rates, which understate what commercial payors actually pay.

The data foundation

• 327,013,120 negotiated rate records processed from 46GB of raw Machine Readable Files published under the CMS Hospital Price Transparency Rule.
• 2,983 hospitals across all 52 U.S. jurisdictions.
• 15,333 CPT codes indexed with per-state P25 / median / P75 distributions, hospital counts and sample sizes.
• The top 20 hospital, insurer and rate combinations per CPT per state.

Why named citations matter

An aggregate benchmark gives you a number. A named hospital, a named insurer, and the rate they agreed on turns a payor negotiation from assertion into evidence you can put in front of a board.

Three examples straight out of the CMS dataset: SFA stenting (CPT 37221) carries a CMS facility fee of $2,100 against a negotiated median of $11,012 across 2,087 hospitals and 169,387 contracts; echo with Doppler (93306) is $380 at CMS against a $937 median; whole-body PET/CT (78816) is $1,200 against $2,868.

Modules

• Center Viability pro forma with 15 specialty and 6 imaging presets.
• Imaging Center Planner covering 10 modalities and 84 CPT codes, with equipment ROI by modality and 60-month cumulative revenue charted against capital.
• Procedure Scanner, Mix Optimizer, Rate Intelligence, Contract Benchmark, Rate Card Generator and Payor Mix Sensitivity.
• Radiologist staffing crossover analysis comparing teleradiology per-read cost against an employed radiologist, with the exact volume breakpoint.

Access

The core modeling modules are free and require no account. Contract Benchmark PDFs, the Rate Card Generator, and full hospital-level citation drilldown are gated behind an email address.

Informational only. Not investment, medical, legal, or tax advice. GigHz or its founder may hold a position in the company discussed — see the disclosure above.

Written and reviewed by Pouyan Golshani, MD — April 2026