The numbers the industry publishes but cannot read. We read them out loud.
One data story a month, drawn straight from the rate corpus. Every chart is embeddable. Every dataset is downloadable with attribution. No press release, no anonymous source: a figure, a method, and the file it came from.
The stories, most recent first.
The published story carries live charts and a downloadable dataset. The next two are named honestly while they are still in preparation.
The 2x office visit: what the same visit pays across America
The same established-patient visit prices from about $70 to $124.57 across state medians. Rochester, Minnesota clears twice the national standard; Texas sits below it. And nationally, the established-visit contract pays under Medicare parity.
The Ghost Rate Report, Edition 001: rates published to no one
The negotiated prices carried in the machine-readable files that never surface at the point of care. What the ghost rates are, where they cluster, and what they imply for a practice reading its own contract.
Renewal season: the window most practices miss
When contracts actually come up, who holds them, and how concentrated the calendar really is. Read from the renewal windows in the corpus, strictly-future dates only.
Upcoming stories carry no date beyond the cadence: one desk story a month. A story publishes when its numbers clear the suppression floor, not before.
Republish it. Just carry the source.
License. Every chart and dataset on this desk is published under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Reproduce the figures, embed the charts, quote the numbers. Carry the attribution: Source: Reddenda, with a link to the story.
One-click citation. The citation string for the current story sits in the block to the right. Copy it as-is.
Localize it. Every national number on this desk has a metro and state cut behind it. Ask the desk for your market: name the metro or state and the code, and you get the local ladder with the same method.
Embargo. There is no standing embargo. Stories publish to everyone at once, the moment the numbers clear the floor. If you are working a piece and want the underlying cut ahead of your deadline, write the desk and we will hold to a mutually agreed time.
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Cite this desk
Ask the desk for a metro cut
Email David@Reddenda.com with a metro or state and a CPT code. You get the local ladder, the sample size, and the method, in one reply.
One story a month. The index prints quarterly.
The desk ships a monthly data story from the corpus. The reimbursement index prints on its own quarterly cadence.
Monthly desk story
One story a month, each built on a single number and the file behind it. No filler months: the desk publishes when the data clears the floor.
The RCRI, quarterly
The Reddenda Commercial Reimbursement Index prints every quarter against the CMS Physician Fee Schedule denominator. The series accrues from print 001.
See the index calendar →Standing methods
Every figure is a contract median against a federally mandated denominator, suppressed below a verified-sample floor. Methodology v1.0, disclosed on each story.
The citation ledger.
The desk reads the market. The Mirror reads your contract.
Every story ends the same way: the national number is only useful next to your own. Run your NPI and see which side of the chart your rates land on.