Honest Comparison
ProcedureRadar vs Turquoise Health
The short answer
ProcedureRadar and Turquoise Health both pull hospital prices from federally mandated transparency files. Turquoise is built for large health systems and national payers, enterprise sales only, no published pricing. ProcedureRadar publishes its pricing from $999/mo, built for mid-market MGAs, TPAs, and specialty payers who need statistical depth without a six-figure procurement.
The Honest Verdict
Choose Turquoise Health
Choose Turquoise Health if you're a large health system, national payer, or pharma team that needs payer-negotiated TiC rates, contract intelligence, and enterprise implementation support, and your organization can move a six-figure deal.
Choose ProcedureRadar
Choose ProcedureRadar if you're a mid-size MGA, TPA, specialty payer, or early-stage insurtech that needs underwriting-grade hospital MRF data with verified statistical depth, API access without a sales cycle, and a price you can approve on a corporate card.
Side by Side
| Dimension | ProcedureRadar | Turquoise Health |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price / how you buy | $999/mo published; apply online, no demo gate and no sales call✓ Best | Enterprise, sales-led for paid plans; pricing is customized per organization and not publicly listed. A free single-user MRF Search tier (account sign-up) allows searching hospital and payer MRF rates, without download or exportSource as of 2026-10-14 |
| Data breadth / coverage | Top 100 US metros, 2,000+ priced hospitals | National coverage across hospital MRF and payer TiC data sources; their 2022 year-in-review counted 78 billion payer price records from 163 payers; no current total figure is published✓ BestSource as of 2026-10-14 |
| Payer-negotiated rates (TiC) | Served on Scale and above, from a small number of payers rather than the whole market, and for some payers the source file covers a single large employer group | Offered; payer TiC rate files are combined with hospital MRFs, claims benchmarks and Medicare fee schedules in their Clear Rates dataset, available in the platform, by API or by data warehouse export✓ BestSource as of 2026-10-14 |
| Hospital MRF pricing | 15,000,000+ records sourced from federally mandated hospital MRFs; per-record source attribution | National hospital MRF data, searchable alongside payer MRF data in their platform, including on a free single-user MRF Search tierSource as of 2026-10-14 |
| Severity distributions and confidence intervals | Verified-cohort severity distributions (p25, p75, p95, p99) where a cohort has enough reporting hospitals; BCa bootstrap confidence intervals on the cohorts deep enough to support them (9,047 cohorts across 19 metros as of 2026-08-26); cohorts below the sample floor are suppressed, not estimated✓ Best | No publicly documented confidence intervals found. Each rate carries a published Rate Score tier, from rates confirmed by both payer and hospital postings to rates checked against Medicare benchmarks and claims, and rates scoring 1 or 0 are omitted, so weak data is suppressed rather than estimatedSource as of 2026-10-14 |
| Statistical transparency | Public methodology white-paper at /methodology/whitepaper; downloadable verified data sample at /data✓ Best | Methodology is described publicly but qualitatively: their Clear Rates page outlines 180-plus transformations and statistical checks, rate scoring tiers, and up to four months of history used to stabilize rates. No public methodology white-paper with the math and no downloadable verified data sample foundSource as of 2026-10-14 |
| Developer experience | REST API from $999/mo, price published; public OpenAPI documentation; access approved by application, most within one business day | Public docs for their Consumer Pricing API (cash and negotiated prices for shoppable services); a free sign-up gives test credentials in a demo account, and production access requires contacting themSource as of 2026-10-14 |
| Data provenance | Federal hospital MRF per 45 CFR Part 180, plus payer Transparency in Coverage files on Scale and above (scope varies by payer; for some payers the source file covers a single large employer group); per-record source attribution back to the originating file | Clear Rates combines payer TiC and hospital MRF files with claims benchmarks, Medicare fee schedules and reference data; they state every rate can be traced to its source and the logic behind itSource as of 2026-10-14 |
Competitor cells link to the public source they are drawn from, with the date we last checked it.
What the Differences Mean
How You Buy: Published Pricing vs Enterprise Sales
Turquoise Health is sales-led. Their pricing isn't listed anywhere public, so every conversation starts with their sales team and ends with a custom quote. ProcedureRadar publishes its price, from $999/mo, and you apply online instead of booking a demo. We review every application, and most clear within one business day. For a mid-market team that can't move a six-figure deal, that's not just a pricing difference. It's whether there's a product to buy at all.
Coverage: Where Turquoise Is Bigger
We'll be straight about this one. Turquoise operates at national scale across both hospital MRF and payer Transparency in Coverage data. ProcedureRadar covers the top 100 US metros and 2,000+ priced hospitals. If full national reach is your requirement today, Turquoise has more breadth. We focus on the metros where the B2B demand is densest and hospital price data is richest, rather than claiming a number we can't stand behind.
Statistical Depth: Where We Go Deeper
This is our lane. ProcedureRadar gives you verified-cohort severity distributions (p25, p75, p95, and p99) with bias-corrected and accelerated (BCa) confidence intervals, served directly through the API. We compute them from 15,000,000+ pricing records sourced from federally mandated hospital MRFs, with per-record source attribution back to the originating file. Turquoise public product materials do not document severity distributions or confidence intervals of this kind.
Provenance and Verification
Every ProcedureRadar record traces to a hospital Machine-Readable File published under 45 CFR Part 180, and we attribute each one back to the originating file. We also publish a public methodology white-paper and a downloadable verified data sample so you can audit the data across the top 100 US metros before you commit. Turquoise describes their data quality qualitatively for enterprise customers, without a public white-paper or downloadable sample.
Payer-Negotiated Rates: An Honest Gap
Turquoise ingests payer Transparency in Coverage machine-readable files across the market, so they serve payer-negotiated contract rates at broad payer breadth today. We serve payer-negotiated rates too, on our Scale tier and above, alongside hospital MRF data across our 2,000+ priced hospitals. But we load a small number of payers rather than the whole market, and for some payers our source is a single large employer group file, so their payer coverage is far wider than ours. If you need broad payer coverage in production right now, that's a real reason to pick Turquoise, and we'd rather tell you upfront than have you find out later.
On Switching
Switching costs are low in either direction. Because ProcedureRadar publishes its price and approves most applications within a business day, you can get a key, pull the same federally sourced hospital MRF data you'd evaluate anywhere else, and audit it against our public methodology before you commit. Nothing here is locked behind an enterprise contract or a multi-week implementation.
Why You Can Trust These Numbers
Every ProcedureRadar figure on this page comes from federally mandated hospital Machine-Readable Files published under 45 CFR Part 180, the Hospital Price Transparency Rule. We track pricing across the top 100 US metros and have published prices from 2,000+ hospitals, built from 15,000,000+ pricing records with per-record source attribution.
- Read the full methodology white-paper for every modeling choice and limitation.
- Download a verified data sample and audit the fields before you commit.
- See how we source and validate data on our methodology page.
- Review our pricing tiers and what is included at each access level.
- Browse the developer portal for API documentation and integration guides.
Founder of ProcedureRadar, former NFL running back (Philadelphia Eagles, Minnesota Vikings), former offensive assistant coach (New York Giants), corporate finance and technology entrepreneur, Villanova University alumnus.
Reviewed by Kevin Monangai on .
When I compare ProcedureRadar to another pricing platform, I try to be straight about what each product actually does. The big enterprise data companies are genuinely good. They're built for buyers who can move a six-figure procurement, which rules out most mid-market MGAs, TPAs, and specialty payers. We built ProcedureRadar for those teams. Underwriting-grade data, at a price they can approve in a 30-minute call.
Frequently Asked Questions
- How does Turquoise Health coverage compare to ProcedureRadar?
- Turquoise Health operates at national scale with hospital MRF data plus payer-negotiated TiC rates from hundreds of payers. ProcedureRadar covers the top 100 US metros and 2,000+ priced hospitals. If you need full national reach or payer-negotiated rates today, Turquoise has more breadth. Where ProcedureRadar goes deeper is published statistical rigor: we compute verified-cohort severity distributions (p25 through p99) and publish the interval math, which Turquoise public materials do not document. The scope is narrow and worth stating plainly: our BCa confidence intervals cover 9047 cohorts across 19 metros, and cohorts below the sample floor are suppressed rather than estimated. Turquoise filters thin data too: their Clear Rates page says rates scoring 1 or 0 are omitted from their products when data is incomplete or rates do not meet quality standards. The honest difference is that we publish the math and a verified sample you can audit, not that we carry intervals everywhere.
- Does Turquoise Health have payer-negotiated rates? Does ProcedureRadar?
- Turquoise Health ingests payer Transparency in Coverage (TiC) machine-readable files alongside hospital MRFs across the market, which means they serve payer-negotiated contract rates at broad payer breadth today. ProcedureRadar serves payer-negotiated TiC rates on Scale and above, but from a small number of payers rather than the whole market, and for some payers our source file covers a single large employer group, so their payer coverage is far wider than ours.
- How do I get access to Turquoise Health versus ProcedureRadar?
- Turquoise Health's paid plans are sales-led: you contact their team for a custom quote, and no prices are listed on their site. They also offer a free single-user MRF Search tier and free API test credentials in a demo account. ProcedureRadar publishes its pricing, starting at $999/mo. You apply online instead of booking a demo, and there is no sales call. We review every application, and most clear within one business day.
- How current is each platform data?
- Turquoise Health ingests payer MRF data monthly and hospital data as hospitals publish updated files. ProcedureRadar re-ingests hospital MRFs on a rolling monthly pipeline. Both platforms build on the same federal mandate, the rules requiring hospitals and payers to publish machine-readable pricing files, and Turquoise's Clear Rates also blends in claims benchmarks and Medicare fee schedules.
- Why trust ProcedureRadar data if Turquoise is a larger platform?
- ProcedureRadar sources exclusively from federally mandated hospital MRFs under 45 CFR Part 180 and attributes every record back to the originating hospital file. We publish a public methodology white-paper and a downloadable verified data sample so you can audit what you are buying before you commit. Turquoise covers more ground nationally, and that is a real advantage we do not match. We cover the top 100 US metros with source attribution on every record, severity distributions where a cohort has enough reporting hospitals, and BCa confidence intervals on the 9047 cohorts deep enough to support them. Trust us because you can check the work, not because we claim more coverage than we have.
See the Data for Yourself
Walk through coverage, statistical depth, and API access on a quick call, or provision a key and start pulling data today.
Pricing data cited in this comparison is sourced from federally mandated hospital Machine-Readable Files. Competitor facts are drawn from publicly available materials including each company's own published documentation.
Pricing disclosure required by 45 CFR Part 180.
- Turquoise Health public materials (October 14, 2026)
- ProcedureRadar Methodology (October 14, 2026)
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