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Bench

Bench. The public benchmark.

What a Medicare Advantage plan's counties look like with no vendor at all — ED visits, readmissions, and the three-year trend, from public CMS data. Free, no account, no PHI.

Get your plan's benchmark

How it's built

The CMS Medicare Geographic Variation file, county rows weighted by Original Medicare enrollment.

What it tells you

Whether a vendor's claim is plausible before an extract changes hands.

What it doesn't

It is not risk-adjusted to your membership; only Arbiter gives the actual number.

Bench is the public benchmark. Arbiter is your actual number.

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