What is Gigasheet Price Transparency Explorer?
Price Transparency Explorer is a healthcare pricing analytics platform for comparing negotiated rates across providers, payers, plans, procedures, and markets. It combines prepared price transparency data, nationwide benchmarks, and flexible analytics in one environment.
How is Price Transparency Explorer different from other healthcare pricing platforms?
Gigasheet focuses on making rates comparable, explorable, and useful for real decisions. Smart Rates reduce noise, Provider Rate Scores summarize market position, and users can filter, regroup, aggregate, and repivot the underlying data as questions evolve.
What is a Smart Rate?
A Smart Rate is a cleaner negotiated-rate measure designed for more meaningful comparisons. It automatically excludes extreme outliers and rates that may not be comparable, helping users make more reliable apples-to-apples comparisons across providers and markets.
What is a Provider Rate Score?
A Provider Rate Score is a quick indicator of how a provider's negotiated rates compare with relevant market benchmarks. It helps users identify providers with stronger or weaker relative contract positions without reviewing thousands of individual rates. Provider Rate Scores reflect pricing and market position. They are not measures of clinical quality.
What healthcare pricing benchmarks are included?
Price Transparency Explorer includes precalculated market benchmarks for providers nationwide, along with Medicare comparisons and other rate context. These benchmarks allow users to assess market position without building each analysis from raw files.
Can I compare rates across providers, payers, and markets?
Yes. Users can compare rates by provider, payer, plan, procedure, geography, network, and site of care. The analysis can be regrouped, aggregated, filtered, or repivoted on the fly as new questions emerge.
What business decisions can Price Transparency Explorer support?
Organizations use the platform to support provider targeting, network growth, contract negotiations, reimbursement analysis, market entry, and M&A diligence. It can also help identify pricing variation and evaluate how providers or networks compare within a market.
Can I inspect the source data behind a benchmark or score?
Yes. Users can drill from a benchmark, Smart Rate, or Provider Rate Score into the supporting negotiated-rate records. This makes it possible to validate findings and understand what is driving the result.
Can Gigasheet combine price transparency data with our own data?
Yes. Organizations can combine Gigasheet data with claims, provider lists, plan data, contract data, or internal business rules. This allows the analysis to reflect the organization's specific network, market, and strategic priorities.
Can the data be accessed outside the user interface?
Yes. Price transparency data and analytics can be accessed through the interactive interface, exported for further use, or integrated into applications and workflows through an API.
Does Price Transparency Explorer replace claims or contract data?
No. Price transparency data provides a broad view of published negotiated rates, while claims and contract data provide additional context about utilization, actual payments, and specific contractual terms. The strongest analyses often combine these sources.