Federal price-transparency rules force every insurer to publish negotiated rates. LAS Health Intel turns that flood of machine-readable files into a clear answer to one question: how does your contract stack up?
Transparency-in-Coverage and Hospital Price Transparency rules put every negotiated rate into the open — as thousands of sprawling machine-readable files most teams have no practical way to read.
“Are we paid competitively in our market?”
Every payer's files are public. Almost no one can actually query them at the scale needed to answer this in a week, let alone a day.
“Where are we leaving money on the table?”
Contract underperformance hides inside DRG-by-DRG and payer-by-payer detail. It only becomes visible once it's benchmarked against the market.
“How do our rates compare across networks?”
Cross-payer comparison means reconciling files that were never designed to be compared. That reconciliation is the work.
Payer rate benchmarking, built directly from published machine-readable files. See exactly what different insurers pay different providers for the same services across your market — and where that leaves you at the negotiating table.
An evidence-based composite scorecard for every prospective provider or practice group — so the impact on your network's performance is understood before the contract is signed, not after.
See how SpectraIQ™ scoring works →SpectraIQ™ gives health systems and ACOs an evidence-based composite scorecard for every prospective provider or practice group — so the impact on your network's performance is understood before the contract is signed, not after.
Request a SpectraIQ™ AssessmentHealth systems and ACOs invest significant time and resources recruiting and contracting providers and practice groups — decisions made most often on specialty need, reputation, and relationships.
What's rarely evaluated before the contract is signed: the impact that provider or group will have on the network's existing payer contract performance, quality metrics, and shared savings position.
SpectraIQ™ moves the intelligence to the front of the decision — where it can still make a difference.
SpectraIQ™ is powered by a continuously updated data foundation drawn from publicly available CMS datasets — covering provider registration, utilization, quality performance, and payer rate transparency.
The composite scoring methodology is proprietary to LAS Health Intel LLC. Your leadership team receives the scorecard and the intelligence — not the formula. This ensures consistency, protects the integrity of the model, and means no IT implementation burden on your end.
No software to install · No data to upload · No PHI involved
| SpectraIQ™ | Typical Approach | |
|---|---|---|
| Scoring level | Individual NPI and Group TIN | Usually individual only |
| Payer impact analysis | Network contract performance impact | Contracted payer list only |
| Data foundation | Real CMS payer, quality, and utilization data | Vendor directories, credentialing data |
| Composite scoring | Weighted across 3 dimensions | Single-metric or subjective |
| Patient risk & complexity | HCC scores, chronic conditions, dual eligibility | Rarely included |
| PHI required | No | Often yes |
| Implementation burden | None | Significant |
| Methodology | Proprietary, consistent, auditable | Ad hoc |
SpectraIQ™ exists to change that. Every provider recruitment and group acquisition decision carries financial, operational, and quality risk that compounds inside your existing payer contracts. SpectraIQ™ gives your leadership team the intelligence to make those decisions with confidence — before the conversation starts.
Lori Smith founded LAS Health Intel on a combination most healthcare data vendors don't have: a clinical background as a registered nurse, formal project-management discipline, and hands-on experience inside Value-Based Care working directly with payer data.
That means LAS Health Intel doesn't read rate files as an outside analyst would. The clinical and financial sides of how care gets delivered and paid for aren't two separate disciplines here — they're the same lens.
LAS Health Intel is a new firm, built to serve health systems and ACOs across all of New England first, with planned expansion down the East Coast.
A market assessment gives your team a clear, benchmarked view of your payer rates against the market — before you sit down to renegotiate anything.