Comparison
Before you spend $50,000, spend five minutes.
Claims vendors sell something real, and for some questions they're the right purchase. Here is the honest split — including the two things they do that we don't.
| Capability | RepVector | Claims vendor |
|---|---|---|
| Complete provider and facility population for a market | ||
| Volume ranking from published utilization | ||
| Patient referral graph (who sends to whom) | ||
| Commercial payer rate intelligence | ||
| All-payer claims coverage | ||
| Medicare-based volume, capacity, and payer mix | ||
| Citation and vintage on every figure | Varies | |
| Stated reason per target | ||
| Self-serve — no sales call to see output | ||
| Time to first usable list | Minutes | Weeks |
| Annual contract required | ||
| Typical annual cost | Hundreds to low thousands | $50K+ |
Buy the claims vendor when
You need to see actual patient flow between specific providers, or you're negotiating against commercial rates. Public data cannot reconstruct either one, and anyone telling you otherwise is selling a model output as a fact.
Use RepVector when
You need the target universe itself — who exists, who does volume, who pays, ranked with a defensible reason — this week, without a procurement cycle, and with every figure traceable to a published federal file.
Run one county free and compare it against the deck you were sent.
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