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