Network cost and contracting

Which providers in your network are paid most for the same code? The answer should come from the files, not from memory.

Medlyze sets what hospitals and competing payers have published for the same codes beside your own rates, by market and provider, each with its source.

Use it to find cost outliers in a network, benchmark rates against competing payers, design a network by market, or check a transparency file before it is published.

Send a market, a line of codes and the payers you compete with. You get the published rates side by side, 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
Outliers in a networkThey surface in the claims run, after the contract is signed.They are visible in the published rates, before renewal.
Rates against competitorsYour team only sees your own data.Every competing payer’s published rate for the code sits beside yours.
Your own transparency fileIts quality is discovered when someone else grades it.It is graded before it is published, with the issues named.
Same code, every payer

Four New York payers publish four different medians for the same code.

Real published commercial rates, by payer and hospital. Your markets and codes 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 view

What competing payers and hospitals have published for your codes, by market and provider.

Outliers

Providers paid furthest from the market for the same code, ranked.

File quality

Your transparency file graded against the CMS schema, with the issues named.

Payer ratings →
What you may be thinking

Can we audit our own file?

Yes. The payer ratings grade every file we track against the CMS schema and name the issues found. Ask for the detail behind your grade.

We have an analytics team.

They have your data. The record adds every competing payer’s published rate and every hospital’s, matched and checked, so they spend their time on the decision, not the files.

How accurate are the published rates?

They are the payers’ and hospitals’ own filings, validated against the CMS schemas and graded A to F. Each rate carries its file and date, so a figure can always be traced.

Benchmark a market

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