state of utah. >> reporter: here at intermountain you are very focused on not wasting money. can you take me on a little tour of the hospital and show me how you do it? >> i'd be delighted. >> reporter: you found you had a lot of ct scans that were unnecessary, wasting money. how much did you save when you stopped doing repetitive scans. >> we dropped the total number by about 20%. it would have been measured in the tens of millions of dollars. and it's not just ct scans, it's other imaging exams. >> reporter: and here's another way intermountain saves money and it's so much cuter than an mri. here at this hospital, two out of every ten babies are born via cesarean section. the national average at hospitals around the country are three out of every ten are born by c-section. you might think, okay, one extra baby by c-section, what's the difference. well, a c-section costs about $2,000 more than a vaginal birth. so if you do the math, if every