Locality Anchored Benchmarking

Know where you stand with your payers.

Locality Anchored Benchmarking compares your contracted rates to what payers actually pay other providers in your geography — by CPT, with confidence flags per finding. Use it for negotiations, appeals, payer mix decisions, or to establish a baseline you can monitor over time.

Per analysis. Five-day delivery.

Sample PayerBlueprint analysis showing contracted rates benchmarked against locality percentiles by CPT, with confidence flags and variance indicators.

Your payer knows exactly what your peers are paid. Until now, you didn't.

Insurance companies maintain detailed records of every rate they pay to every provider in your market. When they sit down to negotiate your contract — or when they unilaterally adjust your fee schedule — they know exactly where you fall in the distribution. You don't.

PayerBlueprint closes that information asymmetry. We map your contracted rates against what payers pay other providers in your specific locality, line by line, by CPT, with confidence flags per finding. The deliverable is a defensible document you can take into any payer conversation.

A defensible analysis document, not a dashboard.

01

Category rollup with leverage opportunity

Executive view showing where your rates stand against the market by procedure category, with confidence-weighted variance and annual revenue opportunity.

02

Line-level CPT analysis

Every CPT analyzed with current rate, locality benchmark, market percentiles (p25/p50/p75/p90), confidence rating, and dollar impact.

03

Top opportunities

Curated ranking of the highest-leverage codes with specific recommended asks and risk notes per code.

04

Methodology and sources

Transparent documentation of how every benchmark was derived, defensible under direct payer challenge.

Sample deliverable

See exactly what you receive.

Below is a real analysis for a fictional practice — Lone Star Primary Care, a Family Medicine group in the Dallas–Fort Worth metro — benchmarked against United Healthcare’s commercial rates. Every figure is illustrative, but the structure is exactly what we deliver.

PayerBlueprint_LoneStarPrimaryCare.xlsx
SAMPLE — FICTIONAL DATA, FOR ILLUSTRATION

Annual revenue gap at p75

$112,400

United Healthcare contract is below market for 10 of 15 analyzed codes. E&M office visits (99213–99215) sit in the p25–p50 range — paid less than half of comparable DFW primary care practices by this payer. Chronic care (99490) and transitional care (99495) are the strongest opportunities.

Category rollup — all payers combined

CategoryTop codesContracted
(% of MC)
p75 targetAnnual gapPosition
E&M (Office Visits)99213, 99214, 992150.951.165$144,340p25–p50
Preventive Care99396, 993951.0181.115$18,909p50–p75
In-Office Procedures93000, 94010, 206101.0251.163$5,899p25–p50
Chronic Care Mgmt994900.921.2$3,415Below p25
Transitional Care994950.9351.22$4,190Below p25
OtherJ0696, 99213-250.9941.159$4,586p25–p50

Top 5 revenue opportunities — ranked by annual gap

CPTDescriptionAnnual vol.Contractedp75 targetGap at p75
99214Office visit, established, moderate complexity3,2100.9521.18$81,891
99213Office visit, established, low complexity2,8400.9451.14$41,345
99215Office visit, established, high complexity5800.961.2$21,105
99204Office visit, new patient, moderate complexity5100.9681.17$15,448
99396Preventive visit, established, 40–64 yrs8601.021.12$11,180

This is the overview — the full file goes deeper.

Behind every number is documented methodology, MRF source data, confidence flags, and an internal QA checklist. In a 15-minute walkthrough we’ll show you the complete file and what your own practice’s analysis would surface.

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Locality Anchored Benchmarking

Multi-source rate benchmarking, anchored to your specific geography.

1

You share your contracts and recent claims data. PDFs, CSV exports from your PM system — we handle the variability across Athena, eClinicalWorks, Tebra, and other systems.

2

We extract your contracted rates and analyze them against locality benchmarks. Rates are anchored to your specific MSA, confidence-weighted across multiple data sources, and ranked by both rate gap and dollar impact.

3

You receive a defensible analysis document within five days. Excel format, structured for use in payer negotiations, underpayment appeals, or ongoing rate monitoring.

Per analysis. No subscription required.

Scoping Estimate

From $400

Lighter analysis using CMS utilization data and locality benchmarks. No claims data required from the practice. Useful for understanding whether a deeper analysis is warranted.

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Baseline Analysis

From $1,000

Full Locality Anchored Benchmarking using your claims data. Defensible per-CPT analysis. The document you take into your next payer negotiation.

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Refresh

From $500

Updates a prior baseline analysis with new contract terms, payer responses, or revised market data. Most useful after a contract change.

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Built for two audiences.

For payer contract negotiators

PayerBlueprint provides the analytical backbone for your client work. Defensible per-CPT analysis with confidence flags, multi-source benchmarks anchored to your client's locality, and scenario modeling for offer development. Use it across multiple practices and payer relationships. Affiliate revenue available on practice referrals to PayerAudit, our subscription monitoring product.

For independent practices

If you're a 1-10 physician practice negotiating directly with your payers or evaluating an offer, PayerBlueprint gives you the same analytical foundation that sophisticated negotiation firms use. Per analysis, no subscription, defensible methodology, five-day delivery.

How an analysis comes together.

  1. 01

    Start with a walkthrough

    A short call to understand your practice, your payers, and what you want the analysis to answer. No commitment required to scope the work.

  2. 02

    Share your contracts and claims data

    Send your payer contracts and a recent claims export. We handle the variability across Athena, eClinicalWorks, Tebra, AdvancedMD, and other systems.

  3. 03

    Receive your analysis in five business days

    A defensible analysis document delivered in Excel, structured for payer negotiations, underpayment appeals, or ongoing rate monitoring.

A short list.

Everything required to begin an analysis.

  • Your practice details

    NPI, specialty, and locality (MSA). This anchors every benchmark to your specific geography.

  • A list of your payers

    The commercial payers you contract with, plus the contracts and a recent claims export.

  • A 15- or 30-minute slot

    Time for the initial walkthrough so we can scope the analysis to what you need answered.