fee schedule negotiation
fee_schd_negDefinition
ISO-11179 Definition
The process by which healthcare providers and insurance payers negotiate the reimbursement rates that will be paid for covered services under a provider network participation agreement, establishing the financial terms of the contractual relationship. Fee schedule negotiation involves analyzing current reimbursement rates as a percentage of Medicare, benchmarking against market rates using commercial data sources, modeling the revenue impact of proposed rate changes against current service volumes, and presenting supporting data including quality performance, patient access, and operational costs to justify rate increases. Providers with dominant market positions, specialized services, or superior quality metrics have greater leverage to negotiate favorable rates.
Healthcare data teams provide critical analytical support for fee schedule negotiations by calculating current effective rates by CPT code and service line, modeling proposed rate scenarios across the full payer contract volume, and quantifying the net revenue impact of achieving versus failing to achieve proposed rate targets.
Standard Abbreviation
fee_schd_neg
Category
Production DDL — FACT_CLAIM_TRANSACTION
CREATE OR REPLACE TABLE FACT_CLAIM_TRANSACTION (
clm_txn_key INTEGER NOT NULL -- surrogate key,
clm_id VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL -- claim identifier,
mbr_key INTEGER NOT NULL -- FK to DIM_MEMBER,
prvdr_key INTEGER NOT NULL -- FK to DIM_PROVIDER,
clm_typ_cd VARCHAR(10) -- claim type code,
tot_chrg_amt DECIMAL(18,2) -- total charged amount,
tot_alwd_amt DECIMAL(18,2) -- total allowed amount,
tot_pd_amt DECIMAL(18,2) -- total paid amount,
cntrct_adj_amt DECIMAL(18,2) -- contractual adjustment,
denial_ind CHAR(1) -- denial indicator,
denial_rsn_cd VARCHAR(10) -- denial reason code,
prior_auth_nbr VARCHAR(30) -- authorization number,
clm_lag_days SMALLINT -- claim lag days,
days_ar SMALLINT -- days in AR,
load_dt TIMESTAMP_NTZ NOT NULL -- load timestamp
);
Standard Snowflake DDL for the canonical finance table. Convert to BigQuery or Databricks →
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