Altitude Intelligence gives community hospitals, ASCs, and provider organizations the market context to know whether the number is fair — and the leverage to push back when it isn't.
Built from payer-published Transparency-in-Coverage data. Delivered by an operator who's negotiated these contracts from your side of the table.
The market gap
The data to benchmark payer rates across markets and procedures has existed publicly since 2022 — buried in terabytes of machine-readable files no contracting team has the engineering capacity to process. The result: you walk into renewals without knowing what your peers get paid, and payers know it.
How the data changes the conversation
Demo 01
When a payer tells you “this rate is consistent with market,” we can show you whether that's true. Side-by-side: their proposal, their published negotiated rates for peer facilities in your market, and where the gap is.
Demo 02
Procedure-level benchmarks for the codes that drive your revenue — filtered to hospitals or ASCs of your size, in your geography, across the payers you contract with. Not survey averages. Actual contracted rates.
Demo 03
New CPT additions to the ASC-payable list are often the highest-leverage negotiation moment of the year — if you know what the market is paying. We build the benchmark before your payer assumes the default.
Why Altitude Intelligence exists
You're handed large volumes of data — sometimes useful, often not, and even more rarely actionable. We help contracting teams turn that data into clear negotiation strategy.
Many platforms in this space were built by engineers and data scientists. They can surface useful data, but they often hand you a dashboard and leave the interpretation to you — exactly the work a community hospital's managed care team or a solo ASC Administrator doesn't have the bandwidth for. Then the dashboards mostly sit unused.
Altitude Intelligence is services-led, software-enabled. The platform does the heavy data processing. We handle the analysis, the negotiation prep, and the delivery — in the format your CFO, your board, and your payer rep actually engage with.
Our founder, Andy Wilkinson, led finance and development for four freestanding surgery centers across Massachusetts — 23 operating rooms, three health system partners, multiple physician partners across specialties — and served as the strategic finance and development lead for the largest independent regional health system in the state. He's built financial models on rate assumptions. He's explained rate differences to executives and providers in ACOs. He's negotiated these contracts. He's sat across the table from these payers. The platform exists because he needed it and it didn't.
Current work
Supporting a Massachusetts community hospital in active commercial payer renegotiations across acute and behavioral health lines, with broader work focused on contract rate analysis and negotiation strategy.
Working with organizations evaluating transparency data for the first time.
Expanding payer and geographic coverage and deepening analytics for contracting teams - or becoming yours.
What we don't claim
We are deliberate about how this work is used. Not every dataset is ready for decision-making. Not every workflow should be automated.
We're battle-testing this work in active negotiations now, with the goal of building reliable, defensible analytics that contracting teams can trust.
This isn't about dashboards and fancy graphics. It's about making smarter decisions.
If what you need is a raw API feed of machine-readable files, we'll tell you who to call. If what you need is someone to walk into a negotiation with you prepared, that's us.
A 30-minute call. No deck, no pitch — just a focused conversation about what you're negotiating, what you know today, and what would change the picture.
