The upstream layer every cancer strategy is missing.
Give clients a defensible answer on cancer costs — before the diagnosis, not after. Stage Zero is a thin risk-stratification and screening-navigation layer that complements the stack you've built and closes the HRSA navigation gap.
Shareable, ungated client materials — built for your renewal conversations.
"What are we actually doing about cancer costs — and are we covered on the navigation requirement?"
"A screening-navigation layer that works our population's risk upstream and documents the navigation requirement — live in weeks, priced like the thin layer it is."
A recommendation that makes you look early, not eager.
It's light, not another mega-vendor
Your clients have point-solution fatigue. Stage Zero deploys in weeks off an eligibility file, complements existing navigation and COE benefits instead of competing with them, and is priced as a thin layer — not a second health plan.
It's defensible in the room
Everything we navigate to follows USPSTF, NCCN, and American Cancer Society guidelines. Risk stratification uses peer-reviewed, validated models — Gail/BCRAT, Tyrer-Cuzick, BOADICEA, PLCO. When your client's medical director asks "what's the evidence?", the answer is published literature, not vendor slides.
It closes a live compliance gap
Individualized breast and cervical screening navigation is a coverage requirement for non-grandfathered plans now. Most plans are leaning on carrier attestations no one has verified. Be the advisor who caught the gap before an audit did — and walked in with the fix already in hand.
Where Stage Zero sits in the stack you've already built.
Complements, doesn't collide
- General navigation platforms — we stop at the risk-stratified screening hand-raise; they take the member into the broader navigation they already run
- Virtual cancer clinics & COEs — the big clinics now cover screening too, through their own medical groups; we're the no-new-care-channel alternative for the detection side, and where a client has one, we hand off cleanly at diagnosis
- Carriers & TPAs — we deliver and document the screening navigation the plan must now cover; they keep claims, network, and benefits administration
- Wellness platforms — we own the clinically validated cancer-risk model; they keep the broad engagement and lifestyle programs
What partnering looks like
- Full pricing on the first call — a simple PMPM base plus performance components, easy enough to explain to a client in one slide
- Client-ready materials: one-pager, the HRSA compliance gap checklist, and an ROI framework with assumptions you can defend
- Joint first meeting with your client, your agenda
- De-identified reporting you can put straight into stewardship decks
Consultant FAQ
Does Stage Zero satisfy the HRSA navigation requirement on its own?
Here's what we commit to: delivery of individualized, person-to-person screening navigation for breast and cervical cancer — the service as the guidelines describe it — plus member-level delivery records your client can put in their compliance file. Whether a plan's overall compliance posture is complete is a determination for the plan's counsel; we provide the delivery layer and the audit trail that make that determination easy to support.
My client already has a cancer point solution. Why add this?
Depends which kind. Treatment-focused solutions engage at or after diagnosis — we work the whole population before that, so the fit is cleanly complementary. The large virtual cancer clinics now cover screening as well, through their own medical groups — there, the honest difference is weight: they add a new clinical relationship and care channel; we're navigation-only, through the doctors your client's people already have, at a fraction of the lift and price. Some clients want the full program. For the ones who mainly need screening rates up and the navigation requirement documented, a thin layer is the better-shaped tool — and either way, we integrate hand-offs rather than duplicating the incumbent.
What's the evidence base, given Stage Zero is early-stage?
We're honest about this: we're building our first-party outcomes book now, and we don't publish numbers we can't stand behind. What's validated today is the science we run on — peer-reviewed risk models and national screening guidelines — and the macro economics of stage-shift. We'll show you exactly what's measured in a pilot and what you'll be able to report to your client at each milestone.
How does Stage Zero make money, and does it create bad incentives?
A flat PMPM base with performance components tied to navigation activity and program outcomes — aligned to screenings completed, not to care denied or care steered. We don't take risk on treatment decisions and we don't provide care, so there's no incentive to over- or under-treat anyone.
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A 30-minute fit check — no pitch deck, no commitment: pricing, evidence, portfolio fit, and the compliance checklist, so you can decide if this belongs on your shelf.
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