How Gigasheet Uses AI to Make Price Transparency Analytics More Powerful

Over the last 18 months, price transparency data has exploded in availability, and complexity. Millions of files, each packed with negotiated payer-provider rates, now flood the public domain thanks to CMS regulations. But making sense of it all? That’s still a massive challenge for employers, consultants, and even provider organizations.

At Gigasheet, we’ve made it our mission to simplify price transparency analytics. And AI is at the heart of how we do it. In fact, we’re leading the industry in applying AI where it matters most: cleaning, understanding, and activating machine-readable files (MRFs) without sacrificing accuracy or trust.

Here’s how Gigasheet is putting AI to work across three critical areas of our platform:

AI That Makes Data Smarter & Cleaner

Every MRF is technically “machine-readable”, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy to work with. File structures vary wildly, headers can differ across insurers and plans, and even similar data types can be named inconsistently (or missing entirely). Worse, files are often bloated with “zombie rates” which are contractual ghosts that don’t reflect reality.

Gigasheet’s backend AI helps automate and improve the entire ingestion process:

• Data normalization: Our models intelligently interpret and data formats (while there are standard schemas the files still vary) so the data lands in a consistent, usable format.
• Zombie rate cleansing: We use statistical AI techniques to detect and suppress zombie rates while preserving access to the original row-level details for full transparency.
• Data validation: AI checks for structure, integrity, and anomalies across file types and payers, flagging inconsistencies before they derail your analysis.

This enables us to provide clean, analysis-ready data without days (or weeks) of wrangling. And because Gigasheet always preserves the original records, there’s a transparent audit trail behind every AI-powered adjustment.

A Price Transparency AI Agent: The Sheet Assistant

Working with price transparency data can be intimidating, especially if you’re not a healthcare pricing expert or SQL wizard. That’s why we built the Sheet Assistant: your built-in AI agent for analyzing price transparency data right inside Gigasheet.

The Sheet Assistant isn’t a black box chatbot. It’s a transparent, explainable tool that uses Gigasheet’s spreadsheet interface on your behalf to answer your questions. You can ask it to:

• Find the average commercial reimbursement rate for a CPT code in a specific ZIP code
• Compare in-network rates for a provider across payers
• Surface pricing outliers by procedure or provider group

Instantly our Sheet Assistant is building filters, pivot tables, and formulas just like a data analyst would. You can inspect every step, see how it got the answer, and tweak it if needed. We find the Sheet Assistant meaningful helps identify a clear path to insights.

New: AI + MCP = A Game-Changer for Price Transparency

We’re excited to announce a powerful new capability in beta: connecting LLMs to your Gigasheet data via our Managed Context Protocol (MCP) service.

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• You can ask high-level questions like “What's the most common type of provider in Minnesota?” and get answers drawn directly from price transparency data (shown above)
• You can build custom AI agents that analyze, summarize, or route insights without exporting any data.
• You always have a clear record of what data was used. Every LLM response is traceable back to the exact rows in Gigasheet, making it easy to verify results.

This opens the door to some incredibly powerful use cases. Imagine embedding price transparency search into your internal portals. Or automating analysis workflows that answer recurring benefit design questions. With MCP, it’s now possible and fully transparent (and explainable).

Transparent AI. Purpose-Built for Price Transparency.

Unlike generic AI platforms or BI tools trying to retrofit for healthcare data, Gigasheet is purpose-built for the scale, messiness, and specificity of price transparency data.

Our AI isn’t just a layer on top. We've integrated it throughout the platform to help you trust, explore, and explain the data at every step.

• For employers and consultants: Run provider recruiting, network benchmarking, and benefit optimization studies in a fraction of the time.
• For providers: Compare payer contracts, spot underpayments, and renegotiate smarter.
• For data experts and non-experts alike: Get answers fast with the full power of AI and the peace of mind that comes from knowing exactly how it got there.

Ready to explore what AI-powered price transparency analytics can do for your organization?

👉 See it in action. Book a demo with our team.