ROI Calculator
The return on knowing.
See the opportunity hiding in your operation.
Circle estimates the revenue and capacity impact using your operating data, NAATP benchmarks, and outcomes verified by our customers.
Estimated annual opportunity
$0
Projected savings and ROI are illustrative estimates based on user-provided inputs and general assumptions. Actual financial impact will vary by organization.
Sources: NAATP Addiction Treatment National Rate Benchmark Report (2025); NAATP Salary Survey (2025).
What UR and QA teams have measured
2x
Authorized days per review, from 3 to 5 days up to 7 to 10.
~30 min
To assemble an appeal packet that previously took hours.
500+ pages
Payor record request returned in under 30 minutes, not weeks.
100%
Treatment plan review coverage, against roughly 10% by hand.
Method and assumptions
Labor rates
National median base pay, NAATP Salary Survey 2025: clinician $75,171, QA / UR director $94,245, RN $92,431. Each is loaded at 1.25x for benefits and taxes and divided over a 2,080 hour year. UR work is priced at a blend of the three, since a review pulls in the treating clinician, a UR coordinator, and QA leadership.
Authorization and UR
A full utilization review is assumed to consume 6 hours of combined clinical time, the low end of the 6 to 8 hour range operators report. Reviews per month default to your census times a level-of-care factor and can be overridden. Appeal packets are modeled at 3 hours before and 30 minutes after, with a modest additional overturn share valued at 5 authorized days.
Quality and compliance
A real QA chart review is assumed to take 45 minutes; manual programs cover roughly 10% of charts today. The capacity figure prices the review work Circle performs that a team would otherwise have to staff. Clawback defense is sized per episode: your daily rate times the typical length of stay for the level of care, applied to the episodes that draw a payor record request or audit each year, half of which is defensible with complete, retrievable documentation.
Clinical capacity
Documentation savings use 17.5 minutes per note, the midpoint of the 25 to 30 minute to 5 to 10 minute shift measured at Monument Recovery, across 22 working days. Utilization assumes one additional billable day per client per quarter at full lift. Reimbursement defaults are informed by NAATP 2025 benchmark per diems and can be replaced with your own contracted rate.
Scenario multipliers apply 50% (conservative), 75% (expected), or 100% (aggressive) of each assumption above. Projected savings and ROI are illustrative estimates based on user-provided inputs and general assumptions. Actual financial impact will vary by organization.
Already verified in the field
"The biggest impact for us has been the efficiency and visibility Circle brought to chart auditing. Having oversight of all charting across every client is a game-changer, especially as our census grows."
Chloe Petruzzo
Chief Strategy Officer, Moving Mountains Recovery
"Circle has been such a huge part of our clinical program. Without it, we'd be in scrambling mode."
Bradley Wagner
Clinical Director, Monument Recovery
Bring your numbers to a working session.
We'll pressure-test this model against your actual census, payor mix, and review calendar.