Payer renewals and negotiations

Every renewal begins with the payer’s numbers. It should begin with yours.

Medlyze sets your fee schedules beside what commercial payers and hospitals have published for the same codes, with every renewal date and notice deadline in one view.

Use it to prepare for payer negotiations, benchmark contract performance, evaluate expansion opportunities, or prioritize contracting effort.

Send one contract. We show your rates beside the market, with the renewal date and the notice deadline, 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
Contract reviewIt begins without market context.Negotiations begin with comparable rates.
Renewal datesThey live in a drawer, and a notice window can pass unnoticed.Every renewal date and notice deadline is in one view.
Where to put effortEvery payer gets the same effort.You know which contract to open first.
A payer’s proposalIt is judged on feel.Each proposed rate is seen against the market, code by code.
Your own numbersFinance, clinical and contracting each hold a different set.One set of numbers, each with a source.
Contract view · Sample contract (illustrative)
Effective1/1/2025confirmed
Renews12/31/2026confirmed
Notice90 daysneeds review
BasisCase rateconfirmed
CodeYour contractPayer medianHospital median
DRG 194$21,500$24,254$13,757
Illustrative: a sample contract written by Medlyze. The payer and hospital columns are real published New York rates. For your contract, they come from the files for your payers and state.
Contract view

Fields confirmed by you. Rates compared by code.

Every field read from your contract is marked for your review before anything is compared.

Compare contracts

Know where to focus before the conversation.

Fee schedules, terms and renewal dates side by side, with the best rate on each code marked and the notice deadline for each contract.

Sample Payer 1 pays more on 1 of 3 codes, Sample Payer 2 on 2. On average A is −6.0% against B.
Term or codeSample Payer 1Sample Payer 2Difference (A vs B)Payer medianHospital median
Effective1/1/20257/1/2024
Renews3/31/2027 · renews first6/30/2027
Notice period90 days120 days
Notice due by12/31/20263/2/2027
Fee schedule basisFixed fee scheduleFixed fee schedule
DRG 330 Major small and large bowel procedures with CC$78,000$91,000−$13,000 (−14.3%)$84,637$38,767
DRG 194 Simple pneumonia and pleurisy with CC$21,500$19,800+$1,700 (+8.6%)$24,254$13,757
DRG 291 Heart failure and shock with MCC$36,000$41,000−$5,000 (−12.2%)$38,794$19,440

Illustrative: three sample contracts written by Medlyze. The payer and hospital columns are real: the median of the rates New York payers and hospitals have published for each MS-DRG. In delivery the contracts are yours, loaded with you, every field confirmed before anything is compared, and those columns are the latest rates payers and hospitals have published for your payers and state, each with its source.

What you get

Contract load

Fee schedule, effective date, notice period and renewal date pulled from each contract. You confirm every field.

Compare contracts

Any two of your contracts side by side: rates, terms and renewal dates, with the best rate on each code marked.

Market view

What commercial payers and hospitals have published for the same codes and state, with Medicare and Medicaid for reference.

The gap

Your rate, the commercial payer median, the hospital median and Medicare for each code.

What you may be thinking

We already have consultants.

Bring them. They can work from the same record: every rate has its source, so what they cite and what you cite match.

We already have benchmarks.

A benchmark compares. The rate of record shows the rate and where it came from. Send three codes and the benchmark you use, and we reconcile them.

Where do the market rates come from?

From the negotiated-rate files commercial payers publish and the price transparency files hospitals publish. We collect, match and check them, then add Medicare and Medicaid for reference.

This won’t help our contracting team.

Compare any two contracts, see the best rate on each code, and see every notice deadline in one view.

Is my contract safe?

We set up a secure load with you.

Check a renewal

Don’t attach a contract here. We set up a secure load with you.