How many payer contracts do providers have?
Knowing the number of payers that providers contract with is important for a few reasons. Reason 1: It is a proxy for […]
Category: Data Insights
Health equity and languages spoken
The Need for Linguistically-Appropriate Services On April 20, 2022, CMS released an action plan that establishes health equity as a ‘first pillar’ […]
The Importance of Health Plan Information and Identity
Defacto Health has been reviewing health insurers’ Provider Directory APIs in terms of availability, issues, and use cases for almost a year […]
Using Provider Directory APIs to assess provider network size
When CMS issued its requirement for payers to publish Provider Directory APIs, it contemplated use cases such as in-network provider search and […]
Analysis of top 50 payers’ Provider Directory APIs
In our previous post, we reviewed aggregate statistics on payers publishing provider directory APIs in the first six months of enforcement of […]
Prevalence of centralized appointment phone numbers in health plan provider directories
This is the first of a series of posts analyzing payer-published provider directory data sets mandated by the CMS Final Rule. Defacto […]