Background
What is price transparency?
And how it's changing the way healthcare teams negotiate, benchmark, and grow their practices.
In 2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) introduced two rules that reshaped healthcare pricing.
Hospital Price Transparency Rule

Requires all hospitals to publicly disclose negotiated rates, cash pay prices, and standard charges for all items & services.

Transparency in Coverage Rule

Requires insurers and health plans to publish in-network negotiated rates, out-of-network allowed amounts, and drug pricing data.

The result? For the first time ever, pricing power shifted—giving providers, analysts, and health systems access to the same contract data payers once kept safely behind closed doors.

THE DATASET

What's being published today?

Today, payers publish machine-readable files (MRFs) with negotiated rates by CPT code and provider, while hospitals publish charge masters and shoppable services in CSV or JSON formats.

This data contains trillions of rates. We download every file every month. That's more data than Wikipedia, LibGen, and Netflix combined.

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95%

Commercial coverage

covering over 170M lives

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10,000+

Reported insurance plans

across all 50 states

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3.5M+

Healthcare providers

and organizations included

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All codes

CPT, HCPCS, MS-DRG

and more…

Great, so can I go search any provider's rate in the MRFs?

Unfortunately, it's not that simple. The raw files are huge—often incomplete, poorly structured, or inconsistent. PayerPrice ingests every payer and hospital file monthly, parsing trillions of rows into clean, structured, queryable data.

We normalize rates, link them to providers by NPI or Tax ID, and layer in metadata like payer IDs and plan names — turning raw compliance dumps into usable pricing benchmarks for providers.

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Speed up audits, automate your workflows, get paid accurately.

PayerPrice delivers up-to-date, contract-specific rate data in clean Excel exports or API. No guesswork. No payer delays. Just data you can use today to start recovering revenue.

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Instant fee schedules

Get complete payer fee schedules in minutes. No payer portals required. Search by NPI, Tax ID, or specialty.

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Keep allowables accurate

We download every rate, every month. Ensure that your fee schedules are always current, never stale.

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Benchmark rates by region

Break down reimbursement by code, geography, payer, and specialty to identify negotiation opportunities.

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Connect via API

Automate data extraction and revenue integrity workflows with structured rate data delivered straight to your tools.

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Automate OON re-pricing

Use real contracted rates to set the usual, customary, and reasonable charges for out-of-network repricing.

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Automate QPA calculation

Benchmark out-of-network qualified payment amounts (QPAs) using clean, contract-specific market data.

Use cases for price transparency

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Payer Contracting & Benchmarking

Compare reimbursement rates across payers, providers, and markets to negotiate stronger reimbursement, faster.

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New Market Expansion & Business Development

Understand reimbursement before entering a new market. Use payer data to support expansion, de novo builds, and diligence.

See how BizDev teams are prospecting

RCM, Payment Integrity, & Contract Compliance

Pull up-to-date fee schedules in seconds. Automate payment integrity and contract management at scale.

Learn about Revenue Cycle Management

Case Study

What top negotiators achieve with PayerPrice

  • Identified rates below market by specialty, plan, and region

  • Replaced manual benchmarking with sharable presentation-ready visuals

  • Helped teams defend double-digit increases in payer negotiations

"Our top-line rates increased 15%"

VP of ContractingResidential Treatment Center in FL

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