California’s SB-137, the most strict provider directory compliance law in the country, is in full effect. All health plans in California must be fully compliant with SB-137 as of July 31, 2018. When we say the strictest provider compliance law in the country, we’re not kidding. Although other state and federal regulators, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for example, are starting to incorporate rules around provider directory data, SB-137 requires health plans to reach out to all contracted providers on a quarterly basis to update over 100 data attributes including: Prov ..read more

We’re excited to announce that our annual user conference, Vision Quest, is now open for registration. This year we are talking Accuracy. Adequacy. And Attestations. The industry is putting a focused-lens on the link between data accuracy and network adequacy. It’s all about having better data, building better networks, and creating a better membership experience. As our valued customer, we invite you to join us, your peers and industry-leaders as we work through these challenges together. During the conference, you’ll have the unique opportunity to: Participate in experiential sessions with ..read more

Welcome to our first meetup as Quest Analytics on Wednesday, July 25th! This time, we will host an exciting data and developer focused evening where we actually get to see real-life challenges the two companies work on every day. We will have our own Quest Analytics team and doc.ai team to present you how we work with healthcare data, present you some major data challenge that you can help us solve. Both teams are also recruiting, so be sure to check open positions for Quest Analytics San Francisco team here: https://jobs.lever.co/betterdoctor/ & for doc.ai https://doc.ai/about#careers. Th ..read more

Last week, Quest Analytics’ CEO Ari Tulla and President and Co-Founder John Weis presented a newly combined network adequacy and accuracy solution for health plans during a session at AHIP Institute 2018. This conference brought together key healthcare industry players including health plans, health groups, policymakers, and providers in San Diego. The combination of Quest Analytics’ network decision-support tools and BetterDoctor’s primary-source verified provider data management platform will enable health plans to provide their members with convenient access to an adequate network of doctor ..read more

Together the companies will create the first integrated platform for health plans to ensure network adequacy, data accuracy and enhanced member experience. San Francisco, CA (June 18, 2018) – BetterDoctor, the nation’s most accurate provider data management platform, is proud to announce that we’re now a part of the Quest Analytics Team, the leading provider of network access and adequacy services to health plans and insurance regulatory agencies. We are super excited for this new transition! Read the press release to learn more ..read more

Come see us at AHIP Institute & Expo 2018 in San Diego! AHIP Institute & Expo is a conference of creative thinking and sharing ideas with health care professionals from around the country. This year, BetterDoctor will share what it has learned from its work with health plans, health systems and health benefit exchanges about improving provider data accuracy and how to manage the data. Plus, we’re hosting a party, where you are most welcome to join! See all the details below. Join us at our session below on Friday, June 22nd at 9:50am Provider Networks and the Intrinsic Link Between Ade ..read more

This post is part of a more technical series about working with provider data and how to query provider data in the most effective way. Provider data is very complex due to its many relationships that depend on different values. More often than not, a person looking for provider data does not necessarily want the entire data dump for a certain doctor, as this can mean hundreds of lines in JSON. Instead, one usually looks to just query a particular value to verify something. For example, one would query the addresses associated with a particular NPI. Long story short, the answer to having too m ..read more

Join us to take a deep dive into blockchain on May 1-2, 2018 at Washington Plaza Hotel, Washington D.C. Our CTO Tapio Tolvanen is going to speak at Healthcare on the Blockchain conference, in Washington D.C. next week. The panel discussion, entitled “Managing Data on the Blockchain for Cost-Savings and Error Reduction”, will be held on May 2 at 10.45 am. The conference will cover topics relating to scalability, interoperability, performance, and security. Our panel will explore ways in which particular use cases in healthcare could be implemented on blockchain and how it can solve the future n ..read more

HLTH 2018 is a conference that brings together payers, providers, employers, government and disruptive startups to learn, collaborate, and evolve. We’re going there and hope you are too! If you don’t have a ticket yet, with promo code “betterdoctor150” you can get $150 off of the registration! Want to talk provider data? So do we! BetterDoctor will be there and we want to meet you! Get in touch to schedule a meeting, come and join the panel and our afterparty on Tuesday. Check full description for both below. Ari Tulla, CEO of BetterDoctor will be on a panel speaking about how fixing provider ..read more

This month our webinar featured Gorman Health Group, Oliver Wyman, and Get Governed. These organizations work with many health plans to tackle provider data challenges. Our presenters shared their unique perspectives on how health plans have managed data. We heard from: Ellie Martin, Senior Director of Provider Innovations at Gorman Health Group Frank Roberts, Engagement Manager at Oliver Wyman Morgan Templar, CEO at Get Governed Andrew Kobylinski, Head of Platform at BetterDoctor We learned that health plans, health systems, and groups will have to make provider directory data accur ..read more