What we do

State and federal agencies have published it for as long as the programs have run: what Medicare pays, what every plan covers, who runs each state’s Medicaid program, how hospitals and plans score. Since 2021 the transparency rules added every hospital’s prices and every insurer’s negotiated rates, file by file. More arrives every year.

Each source has its own shape and its own names for the same plan, hospital, insurer and drug. Reading one sector took a team: analysts to find the files, engineers to clean them, months to connect one source to the next.

So the data was sold like something rare. Book a demo. Pass the screening. Sign the contract. Then, maybe, see the data.

Agents now collect the public record, clean it, learn how each source connects to the rest, and check their own work against the file it came from. An analyst that reads all of it costs a conversation, not a department.

Healthcare data is still mostly priced as if the team were still needed: closed methods, no published prices, one sector at a time. If you pay for healthcare data today, you are probably paying the old cost.

The Vlada analytics engine holds 80 datasets and 211 tables, 8.53B rows from 18 publishers, as one connected record: every plan, hospital, insurer, provider and drug under one identity, on one set of codes and one geography, with every number traced to the file it came from.

It does three things, on a schedule. It collects each source when its publisher posts it. It connects what it collected to everything it already holds. It checks every figure against its source before it is served, and refuses rather than guesses. One API serves the result, and the connector, Studio, Alpha and the work we build for clients all call that same API. A new tool here is built in days, because the data work is already done.

Use it yourself: the connector puts the engine inside Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor, free. Studio answers in plain language with a sourced exhibit, by invitation while it is in beta. Any dataset comes as a file, on request. Vlada Alpha is the Medicare Advantage platform, by conversation.

Or tell us the question, and we build on the same engine for you: an analysis, a dataset to your spec, a tool your team runs, at a fixed price agreed first. What we build stays live at every release, and each build becomes something the next client can have.

The engine holds all of healthcare’s public record, and Medicare Advantage is what we are known for first: every plan’s benefits, stars, drugs, networks and enrollment, county by county, with the engines a plan needs before its next bid. Medicaid and the Marketplace follow on the same engine, for the same buyers. Prices, what care costs from every payer, sit under all of it.

All of it is in one place, every answer carries its source, and the price is on the page. If you have a question about healthcare, you should be able to ask it today.

Ben Tenner, founder · ben@vladahealth.com · book a call