Cure Your Chronic Disease

Revenue Streams

Create JOY and VALUE with CURE Coach Services

Distinguish your practice, learn a fun new skill and save lives with CURE Coach Services. Use our innovative, effective processes to enjoy, engage and enhance your care and practice performance. From the elegant and powerful Butterfly Carotid Discovery and CIMT Ultrasound to seamless communication and collaboration with CURECoach.app, discover new opportunities to detect progressive arterial disease and start the remission process with early intervention. Elevate patient care, boost revenue, and enjoy shaping the future of proactive healthcare.

Financial Benefits

  • Generate up to $100 per scan in less than 5 minutes. Compare to

    • Lifeline Screening cost of $150 with need to schedule on dates when offered in the area

    • Coronary Artery Calcium Score: $100-$200 with radiation exposure and not useful for measurement/monitoring disease response to CURE Plan.

    • Coronary CT with AI Augmentation: $1500-$2000 with expanding but still limited availability and radiation and IV contrast exposure

    • Stress testing: False negatives and false positives limits validity as screening tool and often leads to unnecessary stents or even surgery recommendations.

  • Positive net revenue with as few as 1 scan per week.

  • Repeat exams

    • Every 6-12 months for disease response monitoring for those with the disease

    • Annual screening for those with healthy findings

  • Substantial added revenue with existing staff and minimal convenient online training

    • Direct revenue from scanning charges and credits

    • Retain patients otherwise lost to death or disability due to a heart attack or stroke

    • Recruit patients by standing out among other providers in your market as truly holistic and proactive.

      • Consider the customer acquisition costs and effectiveness of other options, like advertising or speaking presentations

    • Offer the Discover Scan process to your community through employer, association, and other group event outreach

    • Added patient engagement and willingness to invest in

      • Airway assessment/management

      • CT scanning for occult endodontic lesions

      • Saliva testing

      • Periodontal disease treatment: Procedures, laser, ozone, probiotics, others

      • Nutrition counselling, supplement and other product sales, and other income

  • Keep and attract more patients for years to come!

  • Add an enjoyable new skill and service to your clinical tools.

Scanner Support and Charges

  • Digital connection to upload images and access patient records as a Scanner on your dedicated CURE Coach-supported Butterfly archive

  • Report delivery to the patient and Scanner within 2 business days; download from https://curecoach.app with notification by text and email. Flat monthly fee covers reports for unlimited number of scans.

  • Post-scan Discovery Zoom Appointment to offer options for a Plan to address concerns discovered by the Scan

  • Online training and support for seamless, efficient integration into your workflow

  • Easy affordable setup

  • Current Charges:

    • $99/month or $899/year for connection, training, support, and motivation for each active scanner

      • Registration fee for initial training and setup: First 3 months: $297

      • Suggested charge for scanning and Discover Scan Red/Yellow/Green report

        • $25-$100/scan sufficient for CIMT report (Screen images + Bilateral Long Axis with measurable distal CCA IMT view)

        • Charge less for scans limited to short axis view, sufficient for detection of plaque and provoke CURE Plan initiation

        • Charge more when skills develop to offer long axis views needed for CIMT report

        • Offer initial scan at no charge to introduce the concept and show images to create curiosity

          • Receive payment when patient approves sending images for report

            • At time of scan

            • At next visit

            • Any time they become curious enough to pay for the Discover Report

        • Include in cost of membership model or charge ala carte

        • Start at age 30.

    • CURE Coach/CURE Center Charge to Patient for CURE PLan:

      • Discover Zoom to discuss findings and options for help: No charge

      • Vasolabs Arterial Age/CIMT Report option: $149

        • Use existing images if complete enough

        • If existing images not adequate, repeat scanning at next encounter

        • Not required to initiate CURE Plan;

        • Optimal to monitor response to CURE Plan interventions.

      • Labs and Consultation fees

        • Often covered by third party payment in whole or part

        • Cash costs (May be eligible for Health Savings Account use)

          • $400 for initial consultation

          • <$400 for lab charges (reduced if current results available from other sources.

Equipment cost

  • Purchase of Butterfly probe and membership: about $4,000 for the iQ3 probe. See https://www.butterflynetwork.com/index.html

  • Financing available for 3 years for less than $150/month

  • Use existing mobile devices (iOS or Android), Eligible Devices

    • Images and other PHI do not remain on the device; accessible only with password-protected access to image archiving

    • Individual login for each scanner (email and password) using the Butterfly App

    • In-app communication with support resources from Cure Coach

Patient Experience

  • Safe noninvasive ultrasound scan takes a few minutes, incorporated into existing visits or scheduled events. Because there is literally NO RISK, while a brief explanation is polite, Informed Consent is not necessary. It is more effective to “scan and show” than to spend precious time explaining. Scan first, answer questions later. Seeing is believing. Deidentified images can be texted/and or emailed to the patient for motivation and awareness.

  • Scan payment options

    • Scanned video images obtained, uploaded, and stored in Butterfly archive with entry of legal name, dob, personal email, and mobile/text number

      • Option 1: Scanning practice charges patient

        • Up to $100/4 video short AND long axis views are sufficient for the CIMT report

          • Consider to waive/pay for the charge for the first experience

          • Receive $75 scan fee from the CURE Center if the patient proceeds with consultation and CIMT report.

          • Compare to Lifeline Screening at a cost of $150 with limited availability and appointments lasting more than 1 hour.

    • CURECoach.App provided by CURE Coach to motivate interest and engagement.

    • Patient motivated by scanner encouragement and Red/Yellow report to schedule a Video Discovery appointment

      • Discuss image findings

      • Describe threat mitigation opportunities

      • Costs/insurance coverage estimates

      • No charge for Discovery Zoom completion

      • Vasometric Arterial Age CIMT report (using available images if adequate) approved at time of Discover Zoom

    • Follow-up labs and consultation/CURE Plan: Coordinated by and billed by www.theCURECenter.life; See above for details

Butterfly Carotid Ultrasound

  • Reveals arterial injury/inflammation/plaque before an event, enabling proactive lifestyle and medical intervention to prevent strokes and heart attacks

  • Device cost covered by fewer than 100 scans

  • Reporting results and quality assurance responsibility is assumed by CURE Coach.

    • Your responsibility/risk: SEE “Scan Encourage and Educate.”

    • CURE Coach provides the RIP: “Report, Insights and Plan.”

CURECoach.App

  • HIPAA-compliant mobile-friendly portal for seamless communication between patients and providers

  • Secure patient report sharing

  • Facilitates collaboration among providers

  • “Coach” page to promote your presence to CURECoach.app Members searching for your help

  • Click here to try it for yourself!


Ready to get started?

CLICK HERE to schedule a free, no-obligation call with Dr. Craig Backs, the founder and CEO of The CURECenter for Chronic Disease.