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UCare

UCare is a health insurer. They report 1 insurance plans covering 11K providers across 6K billing codes.

Source: public Transparency in Coverage filesRefreshed monthly, latest September 202610 monthly releases tracked

Monthly release

1

Plans

11K

Providers (NPIs)

6.3K

Tax IDs

6K

Billing codes

540K

Rate rows

September 2026 release

What's in UCare's data

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

Billing code types

Distinct codes and rate rows by code system

CodesRows
  • CPT3.3K430K79%
  • HCPCS2K97K18%
  • MS-DRG32013K2.4%
  • CDT3101.1K0.2%
  • HIPPS333<0.1%

Billing class

Professional vs. institutional rate rows

  • Professional340K63%
  • Institutional200K37%

Negotiation arrangement

How each rate is expressed

  • Negotiated360K67%
  • Percentage180K33%
  • Fee Schedule300<0.1%

Plan identifiers

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

  • HIOS ID1100%

Providers by type

Distinct NPIs by entity type

  • Organization (Type 2)7.6K70%
  • Individual (Type 1)3.2K30%

Tax IDs by type

How provider groups are identified

  • EIN5.7K98%
  • NPI (Individual)1302.2%
  • NPI (Organization)5<0.1%

Top states

States with the most providers in network

  • Minnesota8.9K
  • Wisconsin660
  • South Dakota380
  • North Dakota280
  • Iowa170
  • California48

Top specialties

Provider taxonomies with the most NPIs

  • Chiropractor1.6K
  • General Practice Dentistry450
  • Skilled Nursing Facility430
  • Dentist380
  • Community/Behavioral Health Agency350
  • Clinical Social Worker340

These are the files. Want the rates inside them?

Look up UCare'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 2026111K6.3K6K540K
August 2026111K6.3K6K540K
July 2026111K6.4K6K540K
April 2026————
February 2026————

Data quality scorecard

4/6Acceptable

This payer scores 4/6 on data quality (Acceptable). Areas that don't meet the threshold: low derived/percentage rates and standard code coverage.

Evaluated on the September 2026 release.

  • Professional & Institutional Rates

    Data includes both professional and institutional billing class rates

  • Valid Tax IDs

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

  • HIOS Plan

    Data includes at least one HIOS-identified plan

  • Low Derived/Percentage Rates

    10% or more of negotiation entries are derived or percentage type

  • Standard Code Coverage

    Insufficient CPT / HCPCS code coverage, or too many 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

UCare'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 UCare'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

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Frequently asked questions

About UCare's price transparency data.

What price transparency data does UCare publish?

UCare's September 2026 Transparency in Coverage files list 1 plans, 11K providers (NPIs), 6.3K tax IDs and 6K billing codes, for 540K negotiated rate rows in total.

Which states does UCare's network cover?

UCare's files include providers in 48 states. The states with the most in-network providers are Minnesota, Wisconsin, South Dakota, North Dakota, Iowa.

How often is UCare's data updated?

Payers must post updated machine-readable files every month. PayerPrice processes UCare's files monthly; the latest processed release is September 2026, and 10 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 UCare's negotiated rates?

Start a free PayerPrice trial to search UCare'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.