Turquoise Health and Mercalis Partner to Unlock Clearer Healthcare Data
Turquoise Health and Policy Reporter by Mercalis have entered a strategic partnership to bring sharper, more practical visibility to healthcare data. By combining best-in-class price transparency with deep policy and coverage intelligence, the collaboration is designed to serve healthcare providers and life sciences manufacturers alike—helping both groups see the market more clearly and act with confidence.
Bringing Clarity to Pricing and Coverage
Pairing Turquoise Health’s strengths in price transparency with Policy Reporter’s comprehensive payer coverage data creates a single, clearer picture of how care is priced and covered. For years, pricing and insurance policies have been hard to track, compare, and explain. This joint effort aims to lower that barrier, so stakeholders can interpret information faster and communicate it more plainly.
Chris O’Dell, SVP of Market Solutions at Turquoise Health, notes that the goal is straightforward: raise the bar for the services customers receive. Together, the teams intend to turn market insights into actionable guidance—supporting smarter commercial planning and, in turn, improving how patients access the care they need.
Turning Massive Data Into Everyday Decisions
Every month, clients will be able to work with a vast and growing stream of healthcare data—over a petabyte spanning provider, payer, and drug pricing information. With analytics tools built for scale, teams can visualize patterns, benchmark costs across markets and service lines, and move from raw numbers to clear decisions without losing time in the weeds.
According to Tim Ogren, General Manager at Policy Reporter, the partnership accelerates advanced, data-driven decision-making for a wide range of healthcare organizations. By smoothing out the technical hurdles of merging large, complex datasets, it puts comprehensive payer intelligence within reach—usable across different therapies, tests, and service offerings.
What’s Next: Ongoing Collaboration and New Ideas
Both Turquoise Health and Policy Reporter remain focused on continuous improvement and open collaboration. They plan to share learnings from joint projects, highlight practical examples, and keep iterating on tools and methods that address some of the most pressing challenges in healthcare today.
Healthcare changes quickly. With this partnership, the teams are positioning themselves to meet that pace—prioritizing transparency, operational efficiency, and access to information that helps stakeholders act sooner and with greater certainty.
About Turquoise Health
Turquoise Health focuses on making the financial side of care easier to understand and manage. Working with providers, payers, employers, and patients, the company builds technology that clarifies prices and reduces friction around costs—so informed financial choices can support better outcomes.
About Policy Reporter by Mercalis
Policy Reporter by Mercalis delivers coverage and reimbursement data to organizations across the healthcare ecosystem. Its solutions are designed to streamline complex policy workflows and help ensure that patients can reach the therapies they need, when they need them.
Frequently Asked Questions
What problem does this partnership aim to solve?
It brings price transparency and payer coverage data together in one place, helping teams interpret pricing and policy information more quickly, plan more effectively, and support patient access to care.
How will clients use the combined data and tools?
Clients can visualize pricing, benchmark costs across markets and service lines, and draw on payer coverage insights to guide commercial strategies and day-to-day decisions without wrestling with fragmented datasets.
What role does Turquoise Health play?
Turquoise Health provides advanced price transparency capabilities and technology that simplify the financial side of healthcare, making it easier for stakeholders to see, compare, and discuss costs.
What role does Policy Reporter by Mercalis play?
Policy Reporter supplies comprehensive coverage and reimbursement data, giving organizations practical payer intelligence they can apply across therapies, tests, and broader service offerings.
What can stakeholders expect going forward?
The companies plan to continue collaborating, share examples from joint work, and refine their offerings to address urgent challenges—keeping transparency and efficient decision-making front and center.
