We're thrilled to announce the official launch of Healthdex, a next-generation healthcare market intelligence platform that brings unprecedented transparency to healthcare markets across the United States.
What is Healthdex?
Healthdex combines provider footprint analysis with actual negotiated rates to give healthcare stakeholders the intelligence they need to compete, negotiate, and plan. For the first time, health systems, payers, TPAs, and consultants can access structured, queryable data on what providers are actually being paid—not theoretical discounts or outdated surveys, but real negotiated rates from CMS transparency files.
Comprehensive Data Coverage
Our platform currently includes:
- 6,000+ hospitals with negotiated rate data from Hospital Machine-Readable Files
- Major national and regional payers including UnitedHealthcare, Anthem, Cigna, Aetna, and Blue Cross Blue Shield plans
- Complete provider directories from the CMS National Downloadable File and Facility Affiliation datasets
- Quality metrics from Hospital Compare, AHRQ Compendium, and MIPS performance data
- 50+ MSA markets with custom market definition capabilities
Built for Strategic Decision-Making
Healthdex was designed from the ground up to support critical healthcare strategy workflows:
For Health Systems
- Contract negotiation preparation with competitive rate benchmarking
- M&A target evaluation with actual rate data and quality metrics
- Network gap analysis and expansion planning
- Service line competitive positioning
For Payers and TPAs
- Network adequacy analysis and gap detection
- Provider rate benchmarking and outlier identification
- Reference-based pricing benchmark development
- Member steerage program design
For Consultants
- Faster M&A due diligence (weeks to days)
- Data-backed contract strategy development
- Network design with actual market intelligence
- Client-ready reporting and white-label deliverables
Technical Foundation
Behind the scenes, Healthdex runs on a robust data infrastructure:
- Automated ingestion pipelines that process billions of negotiated rate records from hospital MRFs and payer TiC files
- Sophisticated normalization handling MS-DRG, APR-DRG, CPT, and HCPCS coding systems
- Entity resolution linking NPIs, TINs, and CCNs across disparate data sources
- Quality validation with error detection, gap flagging, and reconciliation
- API access for Enterprise customers requiring programmatic integration
What's Next
We're launching with our 90-day Design Partner Pilot Program, offering early customers the opportunity to shape the product roadmap while getting access at zero cost or significant discounts. We're looking for health systems, payers, TPAs, and consulting firms ready to move beyond spreadsheets and outdated surveys.
If you're interested in seeing how actual transparency data can inform your strategic decisions, request a demo or join our pilot program.
Acknowledgments
This launch represents months of work building the infrastructure to ingest, validate, and structure transparency data at scale. We're grateful to the healthcare policy community that fought for the Hospital Price Transparency Rule and Transparency-in-Coverage requirements. This data should be public, and we're honored to help make it actionable.
About Healthdex: Healthdex is a healthcare market intelligence platform combining provider footprint analysis with actual negotiated rates. We serve health systems, payers, TPAs, and consultants who need to understand competitive landscapes, benchmark rates, evaluate M&A targets, design networks, and prepare for contract negotiations.