# Hospital Price Transparency Drift Intelligence (`quanmatrix/hospital-price-transparency-drift-intelligence`) Actor

Turn hospital machine-readable price datasets into payer spread, negotiated-rate drift, outlier and repricing signals.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/quanmatrix/hospital-price-transparency-drift-intelligence.md
- **Developed by:** [Rafael Barreto Haddad](https://apify.com/quanmatrix) (community)
- **Categories:** Business, Automation, AI
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $10.50 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Hospital Price Transparency Drift Intelligence

Turn hospital machine-readable price datasets into payer spread, negotiated-rate drift, outlier and repricing signals.

### Why use this Actor

Hospital MRF files can be normalized, but payer, provider and analytics teams still need recurring intelligence about negotiated-rate changes, spread, outliers and repricing. This Actor sits above raw extraction: supply a current dataset, optionally add a previous snapshot, and receive an aggregated report built for recurring monitoring and AI-agent workflows.

### Key features

- Current-vs-previous negotiated-rate drift instead of normalized rows only.

- Payer and procedure spread analytics across hospitals.

- Rapid-repricing and outlier detection.

- Price drift actions for recurring monitoring.

- Low-compute 256 MB data-first architecture.

- Reads inline JSON rows or Apify Dataset IDs with limited READ permission.

- Writes one auditable report to the default Dataset and `INTELLIGENCE_REPORT`.

### Example

Use the prefilled example or replace `currentItems` with rows from an upstream Actor. On recurring runs, provide the prior period in `previousItems` or `previousDatasetId`. The Actor normalizes common aliases, compares snapshots, ranks the strongest entity changes and emits `agentAction`.

### Use cases

- Healthcare analytics.
- Payer strategy.
- Hospital finance.
- Benefits analytics.
- Competitive intelligence.

### Pricing

One primary pay-per-event outcome: one decision-ready intelligence report. Base price USD 0.015 before Apify tier discounts. The 256 MB data-first architecture is designed for strong unit economics.

### Limitations

- Analyzes supplied public or appropriately licensed data and does not bypass restricted sources.
- Scores are decision-support signals, not predictions or guarantees.
- Keep stable identifiers across snapshots for best change detection.
- Zero-direct-competition status is rechecked before publication because the Store changes continuously.

### Workflow

`upstream dataset -> current snapshot -> optional previous snapshot -> normalization -> entity aggregation -> change scoring -> ranked signals -> agentAction`.

### Input

Provide `currentItems` inline or select `currentDatasetId` from Apify storage. For period-over-period analysis, add `previousItems` or `previousDatasetId`. The Actor uses read-only Dataset permission and accepts up to 50,000 records per run. Stable source identifiers improve exact new/removed record detection, while common aliases are normalized for entity, value, date and secondary dimensions.

### Output

The default Dataset receives one compact intelligence report containing current and previous record counts, newly observed and removed records, an aggregate market signal score, ranked entity-level signals, secondary-dimension concentration and a deterministic `agentAction`. The same report is also saved as `INTELLIGENCE_REPORT` in key-value storage for downstream Tasks, Schedules, webhooks and agentic workflows.

### Gen2 decision intelligence

This Actor preserves its original analysis and adds a decision layer with baseline awareness, regression detection, confidence, GO/WARN/BLOCK executive output, and an optional economic-impact estimate. Economic estimates are produced only when the user supplies `valuePerImpactUnitUsd`; the result states the calculation basis instead of inventing monetary value.

# Actor input Schema

## `currentItems` (type: `array`):

Current source or normalized rows to analyze.

## `currentDatasetId` (type: `string`):

Optional Apify Dataset ID used when currentItems is not supplied.

## `previousItems` (type: `array`):

Optional previous snapshot rows for period-over-period comparison.

## `previousDatasetId` (type: `string`):

Optional previous Apify Dataset ID used instead of previousItems.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum records loaded from a Dataset input.

## `valuePerImpactUnitUsd` (type: `number`):

Optional user-supplied USD value per detected impact unit. Used only for transparent economic impact estimates.

## `monthlyRuns` (type: `integer`):

Optional number of comparable monthly runs used with value per impact unit for the economic estimate.

## `previousAnalysis` (type: `object`):

Optional previous Gen2 output used to compare decision metrics and detect regression between analyses.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "currentItems": [
    {
      "id": "H1",
      "hospital": "Hospital A",
      "payer": "Payer X",
      "code": "99213",
      "rate": 180,
      "plan": "PPO"
    },
    {
      "id": "H2",
      "hospital": "Hospital A",
      "payer": "Payer Y",
      "code": "99213",
      "rate": 260,
      "plan": "PPO"
    },
    {
      "id": "H3",
      "hospital": "Hospital B",
      "payer": "Payer X",
      "code": "99213",
      "rate": 210,
      "plan": "HMO"
    }
  ],
  "previousItems": [
    {
      "id": "P1",
      "hospital": "Hospital A",
      "payer": "Payer X",
      "code": "99213",
      "rate": 150,
      "plan": "PPO"
    },
    {
      "id": "P2",
      "hospital": "Hospital A",
      "payer": "Payer Y",
      "code": "99213",
      "rate": 240,
      "plan": "PPO"
    },
    {
      "id": "P3",
      "hospital": "Hospital B",
      "payer": "Payer X",
      "code": "99213",
      "rate": 205,
      "plan": "HMO"
    }
  ],
  "maxItems": 20000,
  "monthlyRuns": 1,
  "previousAnalysis": {}
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

Decision-ready intelligence report.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "currentItems": [
        {
            "id": "H1",
            "hospital": "Hospital A",
            "payer": "Payer X",
            "code": "99213",
            "rate": 180,
            "plan": "PPO"
        },
        {
            "id": "H2",
            "hospital": "Hospital A",
            "payer": "Payer Y",
            "code": "99213",
            "rate": 260,
            "plan": "PPO"
        },
        {
            "id": "H3",
            "hospital": "Hospital B",
            "payer": "Payer X",
            "code": "99213",
            "rate": 210,
            "plan": "HMO"
        }
    ],
    "previousItems": [
        {
            "id": "P1",
            "hospital": "Hospital A",
            "payer": "Payer X",
            "code": "99213",
            "rate": 150,
            "plan": "PPO"
        },
        {
            "id": "P2",
            "hospital": "Hospital A",
            "payer": "Payer Y",
            "code": "99213",
            "rate": 240,
            "plan": "PPO"
        },
        {
            "id": "P3",
            "hospital": "Hospital B",
            "payer": "Payer X",
            "code": "99213",
            "rate": 205,
            "plan": "HMO"
        }
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("quanmatrix/hospital-price-transparency-drift-intelligence").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "currentItems": [
        {
            "id": "H1",
            "hospital": "Hospital A",
            "payer": "Payer X",
            "code": "99213",
            "rate": 180,
            "plan": "PPO",
        },
        {
            "id": "H2",
            "hospital": "Hospital A",
            "payer": "Payer Y",
            "code": "99213",
            "rate": 260,
            "plan": "PPO",
        },
        {
            "id": "H3",
            "hospital": "Hospital B",
            "payer": "Payer X",
            "code": "99213",
            "rate": 210,
            "plan": "HMO",
        },
    ],
    "previousItems": [
        {
            "id": "P1",
            "hospital": "Hospital A",
            "payer": "Payer X",
            "code": "99213",
            "rate": 150,
            "plan": "PPO",
        },
        {
            "id": "P2",
            "hospital": "Hospital A",
            "payer": "Payer Y",
            "code": "99213",
            "rate": 240,
            "plan": "PPO",
        },
        {
            "id": "P3",
            "hospital": "Hospital B",
            "payer": "Payer X",
            "code": "99213",
            "rate": 205,
            "plan": "HMO",
        },
    ],
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("quanmatrix/hospital-price-transparency-drift-intelligence").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "currentItems": [
    {
      "id": "H1",
      "hospital": "Hospital A",
      "payer": "Payer X",
      "code": "99213",
      "rate": 180,
      "plan": "PPO"
    },
    {
      "id": "H2",
      "hospital": "Hospital A",
      "payer": "Payer Y",
      "code": "99213",
      "rate": 260,
      "plan": "PPO"
    },
    {
      "id": "H3",
      "hospital": "Hospital B",
      "payer": "Payer X",
      "code": "99213",
      "rate": 210,
      "plan": "HMO"
    }
  ],
  "previousItems": [
    {
      "id": "P1",
      "hospital": "Hospital A",
      "payer": "Payer X",
      "code": "99213",
      "rate": 150,
      "plan": "PPO"
    },
    {
      "id": "P2",
      "hospital": "Hospital A",
      "payer": "Payer Y",
      "code": "99213",
      "rate": 240,
      "plan": "PPO"
    },
    {
      "id": "P3",
      "hospital": "Hospital B",
      "payer": "Payer X",
      "code": "99213",
      "rate": 205,
      "plan": "HMO"
    }
  ]
}' |
apify call quanmatrix/hospital-price-transparency-drift-intelligence --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,quanmatrix/hospital-price-transparency-drift-intelligence"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/mCNpGpydgqEibk5Ix/builds/kkHLHQb2UxxwDiANt/openapi.json