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First Choice Health

First Choice Health is a health insurer. They report 1 insurance plans covering 140K providers across 21K billing codes.

Source: public Transparency in Coverage filesRefreshed monthly, latest September 202615 monthly releases tracked

Monthly release

1

Plans

140K

Providers (NPIs)

13K

Tax IDs

21K

Billing codes

16M

Rate rows

September 2026 release

What's in First Choice Health's data

A profile of the machine-readable files First Choice Health publishes, after PayerPrice parses and normalizes them.

Billing code types

Distinct codes and rate rows by code system

CodesRows
  • CPT12K11M73%
  • HCPCS7.4K3.7M24%
  • CDT850400K2.6%
  • MS-DRG82016K0.1%
  • CSTM-ALL1140<0.1%

Billing class

Professional vs. institutional rate rows

  • Professional16M100%
  • Institutional16K0.1%

Negotiation arrangement

How each rate is expressed

  • Negotiated16M100%
  • Percentage140<0.1%

Plan identifiers

HIOS IDs mark individual and small-group plans; EINs mark employer plans

  • EIN1100%

Providers by type

Distinct NPIs by entity type

  • Individual (Type 1)130K99%
  • Organization (Type 2)1.5K1.1%

Tax IDs by type

How provider groups are identified

  • NPI (Organization)10K79%
  • NPI (Individual)2.7K21%
  • EIN1<0.1%

Top states

States with the most providers in network

  • Washington45K
  • Oregon20K
  • Colorado12K
  • Idaho8.4K
  • Montana6.3K
  • Utah6.2K

Top specialties

Provider taxonomies with the most NPIs

  • Clinical Social Worker8.3K
  • Physical Therapist8K
  • Physician Assistant7.8K
  • Family Medicine Physician7.5K
  • Mental Health Counselor7.1K
  • Family Nurse Practitioner6.6K

These are the files. Want the rates inside them?

Look up First Choice Health's negotiated rates by provider, TIN, billing code and plan.

Month-over-month history

Track how network size and rate volume change with each monthly release.

MonthPlansNPIsTax IDsBilling codesRate rows
September 20261140K13K21K16M
August 20261140K13K21K16M
July 202610000
June 2026————
May 2026————

Data quality scorecard

4/6Acceptable

This payer scores 4/6 on data quality (Acceptable). Areas that don't meet the threshold: valid tax ids and hios plan.

Evaluated on the September 2026 release.

  • Professional & Institutional Rates

    Data includes both professional and institutional billing class rates

  • Valid Tax IDs

    Less than 80% of Tax IDs are EIN or NPI (Organization) type

  • HIOS Plan

    Data does not include any HIOS-identified plans

  • Low Derived/Percentage Rates

    Less than 10% of negotiation entries are derived or percentage type

  • Standard Code Coverage

    Sufficient CPT and HCPCS code coverage with low proportion of LOCAL entries

  • Common Taxonomies

    NPIs in the dataset cover at least 50 distinct provider taxonomies

How the score works

Each monthly release is checked against six criteria. 5–6 passing criteria rate Good, 3–4 rate Acceptable, and 0–2 rate Poor.

Behavioral, RX, and other specialty networks may not pass all criteria but can still contain complete and usable data.

Access the data

First Choice Health's negotiated rates, in the tools your team already uses

PayerPrice turns raw transparency files into one clean, normalized dataset across 180+ payers, refreshed every month. Pick how you want to work with it.

UI

Web app

Search First Choice Health's rates by code, provider or market and export the results. No setup required.

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API

REST API

Pull negotiated rates, providers and benchmarks into your own products and pipelines.

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SQL

Snowflake & Databricks

Query the full normalized dataset with SQL or PySpark, shared directly into your warehouse.

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AI

MCP server

Ask Claude, Cursor or your own agents questions like "What does First Choice Health pay for CPT 99213 near me?"

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Frequently asked questions

About First Choice Health's price transparency data.

What price transparency data does First Choice Health publish?

First Choice Health's September 2026 Transparency in Coverage files list 1 plans, 140K providers (NPIs), 13K tax IDs and 21K billing codes, for 16M negotiated rate rows in total.

Which states does First Choice Health's network cover?

First Choice Health's files include providers in 51 states. The states with the most in-network providers are Washington, Oregon, Colorado, Idaho, Montana.

How often is First Choice Health's data updated?

Payers must post updated machine-readable files every month. PayerPrice processes First Choice Health's files monthly; the latest processed release is September 2026, and 15 monthly releases are available.

What is the Transparency in Coverage rule?

Since July 2022, the federal Transparency in Coverage rule has required most group health plans and health insurers to publish machine-readable files of their in-network negotiated rates and out-of-network allowed amounts, updated monthly. These files are the source for the data on this page.

How can I access First Choice Health's negotiated rates?

Start a free PayerPrice trial to search First Choice Health's rates in the web app, or book a demo to get the full dataset through the REST API, SQL in Snowflake or Databricks, or AI assistants through the PayerPrice MCP server.