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Wellcare

Wellcare is a health insurer, part of the Centene Group family. They report 6 insurance plans covering 1.2M providers across 47K billing codes.

Source: public Transparency in Coverage filesRefreshed monthly, latest June 202616 monthly releases tracked

Monthly release

6

Plans

1.2M

Providers (NPIs)

XX% vs prior month

290K

Tax IDs

XX% vs prior month

47K

Billing codes

XX% vs prior month

640M

Rate rows

XX% vs prior month

June 2026 release

What's in Wellcare's data

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

Billing code types

Distinct codes and rate rows by code system

CodesRows
  • CPT15K430M67%
  • HCPCS11K180M29%
  • CDT95024M3.7%
  • MS-DRG760120K<0.1%
  • RC72095K<0.1%
  • CSTM-ALL166K<0.1%
  • ICD17K36K<0.1%

Billing class

Professional vs. institutional rate rows

  • Institutional540M85%
  • Professional96M15%

Negotiation arrangement

How each rate is expressed

  • Derived530M84%
  • Fee Schedule96M15%
  • Negotiated8.2M1.3%
  • Percentage450K<0.1%
  • Per Diem79K<0.1%

Plan identifiers

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

  • HIOS ID6100%

Providers by type

Distinct NPIs by entity type

  • Individual (Type 1)1.2M96%
  • Organization (Type 2)47K4.0%

Tax IDs by type

How provider groups are identified

  • EIN180K62%
  • NPI (Individual)110K38%

Top states

States with the most providers in network

  • Texas100K
  • California88K
  • New York83K
  • Florida75K
  • Illinois59K
  • Pennsylvania53K

Top specialties

Provider taxonomies with the most NPIs

  • Family Nurse Practitioner84K
  • Physician Assistant73K
  • Internal Medicine Physician66K
  • Family Medicine Physician66K
  • Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist41K
  • Emergency Medicine Physician40K

These are the files. Want the rates inside them?

Look up Wellcare'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
June 202661.2M290K47K640M
May 202661.2M290K46K610M
April 202661.2M290K46K610M
March 2026————
February 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 low derived/percentage rates.

Evaluated on the June 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 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

    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

Wellcare'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 Wellcare's rates by code, provider or market and export the results. No setup required.

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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 Wellcare's price transparency data.

What price transparency data does Wellcare publish?

Wellcare's June 2026 Transparency in Coverage files list 6 plans, 1.2M providers (NPIs), 290K tax IDs and 47K billing codes, for 640M negotiated rate rows in total.

Which states does Wellcare's network cover?

Wellcare's files include providers in 51 states. The states with the most in-network providers are Texas, California, New York, Florida, Illinois.

How often is Wellcare's data updated?

Payers must post updated machine-readable files every month. PayerPrice processes Wellcare's files monthly; the latest processed release is June 2026, and 16 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 Wellcare's negotiated rates?

Start a free PayerPrice trial to search Wellcare'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.