Announcing the Price Transparency Data Catalog: Nationwide Hospital & Payer Files, Preloaded and Ready to Explore

Over the last few years, price transparency regulations have unleashed an avalanche of healthcare data. But just because this data is public doesn’t mean it’s usable.

That’s why we’re excited to announce our Price Transparency Data Catalog, now included with select plans. This catalog gives users direct access to more than 6 terabytes of preprocessed, preloaded pricing data, covering thousands of payer files and over 5,000 hospitals across all 50 states.

This is in addition to your existing ability to view large machine-readable files (MRFs) on-demand, whether they come in massive CSVs or deeply nested JSON formats.

What’s Included

The Price Transparency Data Catalog provides ready-to-analyze datasets drawn directly from Transparency in Coverage and Hospital Price Transparency machine-readable files. While the data has been extracted and organized for usability, it is still in it's raw form, giving you access to the original output as published by payers and hospitals, just in a format that’s practical to work with.

Key highlights include:

• Thousands of payer files, including national and regional plans
• Over 5,000 hospitals represented, spanning every U.S. state
• 6TB+ of preloaded data, continuously updated with new disclosures
• Structured rate tables with billing codes, negotiated rates, and provider references
• Searchable catalogs organized by payer, hospital system, procedure code, and geography

If you’ve ever tried to load a 120GB MRF or extract rate info from a multi-nested JSON structure, you know how painful it can be. The Data Catalog gives you a head start. Everything is preloaded, indexed, and ready to filter or join using our familiar spreadsheet-like interface.

Why This Matters

Healthcare organizations, self-insured employers, and consultants are sitting on a goldmine of pricing data, but making use of that data is another story.

Here’s the typical challenge:

• MRFs from a single payer can be hundreds of gigabytes in size.
• JSON files use deeply nested arrays that require custom scripts just to unpack.
• Each file may contain millions of rates spread across hundreds of thousands of providers.
• There’s no standard schema across carriers, every file looks a little different.

In short, the raw data is there, but it's buried. We built the Price Transparency Data Catalog to surface that data in a way that’s practical, scalable, and fast.

Who It’s For

This catalog is designed for anyone who needs to work with transparency data at scale, including:

• Self-insured employers analyzing network competitiveness
• Benefits consultants comparing payer discounts by market
• MSOs and provider groups reviewing reimbursement positioning
• Health systems monitoring payer behavior in local markets
• Health tech companies building cost comparison tools

By giving you fast access to a preloaded set of real-world negotiated rates, the catalog helps you spend more time on analysis, and less on engineering.

What You Can Do with It

The Price Transparency Data Catalog is tightly integrated with our spreadsheet-based interface, allowing you to:

• Query rates by CPT, DRG, or revenue code
• Compare pricing across hospitals and payers
• Join datasets using familiar spreadsheet logic (VLOOKUP-style)
• Slice data by facility, region, or taxonomy (when paired with ourexternal NPI enrichment)
• Export filtered results to CSV for use in Excel, Power BI, or downstream systems

You can also combine catalog files with your own datasets, upload your custom provider list or claims history and filter the catalog down to just the providers you care about.

On-Demand MRF Viewing Still Included

The catalog is a powerful shortcut, but if you want to dig into raw files directly, you still can.

Every price transparency plan still includes:

• Large file support: View, filter, and explore multi-gigabyte CSV and JSON MRFs
• Indexed JSON navigation: Load deeply nested files without writing code
• Data cleanup tools: Reorganize, rename, and calculate columns instantly
• Enrichment workflows: Add NPI, location, and contact info when needed

This hybrid approach, preloaded catalog plus raw file access, means you get both speed and flexibility.

How the Data Catalog Is Used

Organizations across the healthcare ecosystem use the Price Transparency Data Catalog to inform strategy, support negotiations, and improve market positioning. Here are three common use cases:

Consultants Supporting Large Provider Groups

Consultants working with large provider groups use the catalog to benchmark reimbursement rates across payers and competitors. This data helps inform contract renegotiations, providing a clear view of how their clients’ rates compare in the market.

Healthcare Networks Growing and Strengthening Their Provider Rosters

Health systems and ACOs rely on the catalog to identify high-performing providers and understand how they're reimbursed by competing plans. They use these insights to recruit strategically and offer competitive contracts that enhance network adequacy and efficiency.

Medical Device Manufacturers Advancing Market Access Strategies

Medical device companies use hospital-published pricing data to understand how procedures involving their products are reimbursed. This supports market access and reimbursement teams with real-world reference points to guide strategy and engagement with providers and payers.

Ever Growing

We’re continuously expanding the Price Transparency Data Catalog. New additions will include:

• Additional payers and hospital systems, including those with irregular publishing formats
• Enriched data, including de-zombified plans, enriched with NPI data
• Programmatic access via API for Enterprise users

As always, we're listening to customer feedback to guide the roadmap. If there’s a dataset or structure you’d like to see added, we’d love to hear about it.

Getting Access

If you're already on a qualifying price transparency plan, the Data Catalog is available in your Gigasheet account today. If you're on a qualifying plan and not seeing access, just hit up our Support Team.

Not sure if your plan includes it, or ready to upgrade? Contact us and we’ll walk you through the options.

Stop Fighting the Files. Start Exploring the Data.

The raw price transparency data is incredibly valuable, but only if you can work with it. The Price Transparency Data Catalog removes the friction by giving you preloaded access to terabytes of hospital and payer rates, ready for analysis.

No scripts. No setup. Just answers.

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