Rate Explorer™

Every negotiated rate, by payer, provider, and code

A no-code platform to explore commercial negotiated rates from every payer MRF. Filter by any payer, provider, plan, and billing code, benchmark instantly, and refresh quarterly. No data team required.

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The healthcare price transparency solution built for clarity & speed

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Explore Every Rate With Ease

Analyze any combination of payers, providers, & services without writing a single line of code.

  • Intuitive, no-code interface for teams leveraging healthcare cost transparency
  • Access historical rates to benchmark rate changes over time
  • Enriched metadata for apples-to-apples comparisons
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Use Claims to Reveal the Full Story

Layer in all-payer claims data with volumes, billed amounts, & remits directly alongside negotiated rates.

  • Seamlessly integrate claims directly into your rate analysis
  • Compare billed vs. paid amounts side-by-side
  • Identify changes over time with historical trending
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Move From Analysis to Action

Empower managed care directors & finance teams with the detail needed for trusted negotiations and pricing decisions.

  • Flexible templates for common analysis like contract benchmarking & trending
  • Instantly identify pricing outliers with dynamic filters and data slices
  • Automatically surface recommended actions & insights
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Latest Insights

Introducing The Price of Healthcare Podcast
News 2 min read

Introducing The Price of Healthcare Podcast

The Price Transparency Project is launching a podcast. The Price of Healthcare is conversations with the brightest minds in healthcare finance: the people who set, negotiate, analyze, and pay the prices, and what they've learned now that those prices are public.

September 7, 2026

From a sketch to a rule: the origins of price transparency
Podcast 43 min

From a sketch to a rule: the origins of price transparency

Randy Pate helped write the federal price transparency rules at CMS. He walks through the original theory behind them, what the first pass got wrong, and what the data can accomplish for buyers today.

September 5, 2026

Welcome to The Price of Healthcare Podcast
Podcast 12 min

Welcome to The Price of Healthcare Podcast

Payerset co-founders Jerry DiMaso and Jacob Little on why they launched The Price Transparency Project, how the data has matured since 2022, and what to expect from the conversations ahead.

September 4, 2026

Introducing Employer Rate Intelligence
News 5 min read

Introducing Employer Rate Intelligence

Payerset Launches Free Employer Plan Benchmarking Tool.

September 2, 2026

Gaining Leverage by Uncovering Contract Structures
Price Transparency Project 6 min read

Gaining Leverage by Uncovering Contract Structures

A single negotiated base rate can price most of a hospital's inpatient DRG grid. Here is how to back into it from price transparency data, and turn it into negotiation leverage.

August 18, 2026

Same Surgery, Different Price: Who Owns the ASC Predicts What the Payer Pays
Price Transparency Project 6 min read

Same Surgery, Different Price: Who Owns the ASC Predicts What the Payer Pays

Payerset priced three orthopedic procedures across Atlanta's independent, private equity, and system-owned surgery centers. Rates rose with the market power of the owner every time.

July 13, 2026

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Start Leveraging Price Transparency Data Today

Request your demo & learn how Rate Explorer can transform your pricing strategy & contract negotiations.

  • All payer-provider negotiated rates with claims
  • Access every health plan with historical rates
  • Self-service platform with no IT lift required

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Frequently Asked Questions

How often is Rate Explorer data refreshed?
The data is refreshed quarterly and is automatically made available directly to customers in the self-service Rate Explorer portal.
Can I analyze rates directly by billing code?
Yes! You can choose any combination of payers, providers, and billing codes for any plan and instantly compare rates. You do not have to pre-select a plan or other subsets of the data.
Do you normalize disparate payer rate formats?
Yes. Payerset's ingestion pipeline parses and standardizes every payer MRF, handling different schemas and formats, standardizing fields, and enriching with additional data like Healthcare Organization (HCO) affiliations to increase usability before the data appears in Rate Explorer.
What are some of the ongoing challenges with machine readable files (MRFs)?

Here are a few of the common challenges within price transparency data. Payerset takes care of each of these (and more!) as part of our standard parsing and enrichment processes:

  • Sheer volume: up to 300 TB of new data each month
  • Inconsistent schemas: payers change field names without notice
  • Ghost or 'zombie' rates: rates for services a provider doesn't actually perform
  • Naming and coding variation: inconsistent parent groupings, plan aliases, missing billing codes
  • Update cadence and hosting quirks: links move or lag, some payers omit metadata