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 geographic rate index by county, with formulas printed | Varies | |
| County siting scorecard for where to open a facility | ||
| Lookalike matching from accounts that already work | Add-on | |
| Affiliation graph from published system and location ties | ||
| Shortage-area and VA coverage-gap scoring | ||
| Published district contract and vendor discovery | ||
| Medicare-based volume, capacity, and payer mix | ||
| Services and locations read from each target's own site | ||
| Named decision-maker with the page it was found on | Add-on | |
| Capability gaps against competing providers | ||
| Change alerts when a target adds services, sites or people | ||
| 0–100 fit score with a visible breakdown | ||
| 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. We publish Medicare geographic rate context because CMS publishes it — commercial and Medicaid rates are not published at county grain, and we say so on the page rather than modelling them.
Use RepVector when
You need the target universe itself — who exists, who does volume, who pays, who to ask for by name, what each site does and doesn't offer, and what changed this month — ranked 0–100 with a defensible reason, this week, without a procurement cycle, and with every figure traceable to a published federal file or the target's own page.
Run one county free and compare it against the deck you were sent.
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