Benefits and plan decisions

A renewal arrives with the carrier’s numbers. The plan should be judged on the market’s.

Medlyze provides what hospitals and payers in your markets have published for the services your employees use, by provider and payer, each with its source: the benchmark for carrier selection, reference-based pricing and steerage.

Use it to select or renew a carrier, set a reference-based price, steer to lower-cost providers, or explain a benefits number to leadership.

Send your markets and the carriers under consideration. You get published rates for the services that drive spend, within 24 hours.

The risk of deciding without it

What changes when the decision is made on the rate of record.

DecisionDecided on assumptionDecided on the rate of record
Carrier selectionCarriers are compared on their own proposals.They are compared on what each pays the same providers for the same services.
A reference-based priceIt is set from a national multiple.It is set from what the market publishes for your geography.
SteerageEmployees are pointed at a network, not a price.Lower-cost providers for the same service are named.
Same code, every payer

Four payers, four medians, one code. Your markets come in the same view.

Real published commercial rates for New York, by payer and hospital. Your markets and services come in the same record.

4 payers, median rates $20,542–$29,170 · 8 hospitals $6,554–$35,188
Commercial payersAetnaAetna: median $20,542 ($5,638–$43,315)United HealthcareUnited Healthcare: median $20,771 ($10,490–$39,292)CignaCigna: median $27,737 ($16,706–$57,778)Emblem HealthEmblem Health: median $29,170 ($14,194–$76,674)HospitalsMontefiore Medical CenterMontefiore Medical Center: median $6,554 ($2,753–$63,435)Garnet Health Medical CenterGarnet Health Medical Center: median $8,892 ($8,892–$29,750)Mount St. Mary's HospitalMount St. Mary's Hospital: median $9,836 ($6,164–$15,205)Kenmore Mercy HospitalKenmore Mercy Hospital: median $10,460 ($5,208–$15,205)Good Samaritan Hospital Medic…Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center: median $17,054 ($7,522–$22,388)St. Francis HospitalSt. Francis Hospital: median $21,550 ($6,976–$30,567)Montefiore New Rochelle Hospi…Montefiore New Rochelle Hospital: median $24,708 ($6,554–$65,600)White Plains HospitalWhite Plains Hospital: median $35,188 ($6,489–$61,699)$0$76,674

Dot = median · thin line = lowest to highest rate · shaded bar = middle half of a payer’s providers

SourceMedianLowest–highestBasis
White Plains Hospital$35,188$6,489–$61,6996 payers · file updated 4/1/2026
Emblem Health$29,170$14,194–$76,67443 providers · August 2026 file
Cigna$27,737$16,706–$57,77868 providers · August 2026 file
Montefiore New Rochelle Hospital$24,708$6,554–$65,6009 payers · file updated 4/1/2026
St. Francis Hospital$21,550$6,976–$30,5678 payers · file updated 2/19/2026
United Healthcare$20,771$10,490–$39,292113 providers · August 2026 file
Aetna$20,542$5,638–$43,31564 providers · August 2026 file
Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center$17,054$7,522–$22,3888 payers · file updated 2/19/2026
Kenmore Mercy Hospital$10,460$5,208–$15,2058 payers · file updated 2/25/2025
Mount St. Mary's Hospital$9,836$6,164–$15,2059 payers · file updated 2/25/2025
Garnet Health Medical Center$8,892$8,892–$29,7508 payers · file updated 4/1/2026
Montefiore Medical Center$6,554$2,753–$63,4358 payers · file updated 4/1/2026
Real published rates for New York: inpatient case rates for MS-DRG 194. Payers: August 2026 negotiated-rate files. Hospitals: the commercial payer rates each hospital publishes. A sample of payers and hospitals; your request covers the payers, hospitals and codes you name, plus Medicare and Medicaid.
What you get

Market benchmark

Published rates for the services that drive your spend, by provider and payer, in your markets.

Carrier comparison

What each carrier pays the same providers for the same services.

A report leadership can read

The benchmark as a finished report, built on the same record.

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What you may be thinking

We are self-funded.

Then you have the most room to act on it: direct contracting, reference-based pricing and steerage all start from the same published rates.

Can our broker or consultant use it?

Yes. The record is one set of numbers with sources; they can work from it with you.

Where do the rates come from?

From the price transparency files hospitals publish and the negotiated-rate files payers publish, matched and checked, with Medicare for reference.

Benchmark a plan

We use your answers to prepare your sample and contact you about it.