• Stronger Reporting Foundation: We refreshed Iris’s core network utilization and provider market share models using enhanced logic from our tertiary commercial claims dataset. The result is more up-to-date, reliable utilization projections across all Iris report types.

• Data Refresh & New Plans: Iris is now powered by 2025 Q4 MRF data, with improved provider filtering, enhanced benchmarking logic, and expanded coverage across national and regional plans—delivering clearer, more consistent network insights.

• New Disruption Analysis Report: The new Disruption Analysis report makes it easier to understand network changes with interactive gain/loss charts and a detailed provider status table. Reach out to Customer Success if you would like to try it out. 

• Faster, Smarter Provider Search: We significantly improved the search experience in Rate Lookup and added auto-lookup functionality. When searching by provider, Iris now automatically pulls the top 100 billing codes by utilization.

• Usability & Reporting Enhancements: We introduced a redesigned export menu, refreshed loading visuals, and a new feature that lets you click chart labels to instantly open the related filtering options–making it easier to explore data without breaking your flow.

Iris has been fully refreshed with 2025 Q4 Machine-Readable File (MRF) data, replacing the prior Q3 dataset. This update reflects the most recent contracted rate disclosures from national and regional carriers and health systems.

Note: Some regional plans continue to show higher levels of derived data due to incomplete or low-quality MRF disclosures. We will continue running quarterly refreshes as file quality improves. If you have questions about data completeness for a specific plan or market, please let us know.

Provider logic has been refined to filter at the NPI and clinical subcategory level, ensuring only providers with evidence of delivering services are included. This results in a cleaner, more representative dataset and reduces noise from inactive or misclassified providers.

Benchmarking now incorporates Place of Service (POS) groupings, enabling more precise cost comparisons across inpatient, outpatient, and professional settings—particularly important for network, actuarial, and site-of-care analyses.

Iris now includes ~120 networks across national BUCA and regional plans, with expanded regional and alternative network coverage. We’ve also significantly streamlined our QA and plan run processes, lowering the operational lift required to continue expanding and refreshing the network database.

The new Disruption Analysis feature allows you to see how provider coverage will change when switching carriers. It shows the percent overlap in provider market share between plans as well as which providers will be added or dropped as a result from the network change. The Disruption Analysis template will ultimately help determine if switching insurance carriers is beneficial and by how much.

If you’d like a demo, please contact your account admin or Handl Health Customer Success Manager.

• Gain/Loss Charts: Visual charts clearly compare provider gains and losses between current and proposed networks.

• Provider Breakdown Table: A detailed table shows provider-level status (Gained, Lost, or Matched), making it easy to see exactly what changes.

• Flexible Filtering & Search: Filter by network status (in-network or out-of-network), networks being compared, MSA, and provider type. You can also search for specific providers to quickly confirm whether they’re impacted.

While Disruption Analysis has excellent coverage at launch, we are working diligently to bring in remaining data covering Aetna plans in CA, CO, AZ, OR, NV, NM, and ND states. Customers with access will be notified once these are available. 

• Upgraded Market Share Weighting: We enhanced provider weighting logic so regional and national benchmarks more accurately reflect real-world provider utilization.

• National Rate Search by Provider Type: You can now retrieve national benchmark rates when searching by provider or procedure, with the ability to drill down to a highly granular level.

• Top Provider Auto-Lookup: When searching by procedure code, Rate Lookup automatically identifies and displays the top 100 providers by market share, saving time and speeding up analysis.

• UI Refresh: We incorporated extensive user feedback to improve the overall usability and navigation of Rate Lookup.

• Faster Provider Search: Provider and procedure searches have been optimized to make finding rates quicker and more intuitive.

• Dynamic Chart Grouping: The Average Contracted Rates by Top Hospitals chart now includes dynamic filters, allowing you to switch views by setting of care, specific service or procedure, or subcategory.

• Expanded Hospital Specialty Coverage: We expanded specialty hospital IDs and taxonomies in the By Hospital chart, making more non-acute care hospitals visible across additional categories.

• Streamlined Claims Imports: The Automated Claims Repricing column-mapping workflow no longer requires clicking “select” after each match, making imports faster and more efficient.

• Enhanced Export Menu: The export modal has been updated to clearly separate available files, making it easier to choose exactly what you need to download.

• Interactive Filters: You can now click directly on chart labels in Network Evaluation and Care Steerage reports to instantly open the related filtering options.

• Improved Loading Experience: We introduced a refreshed report loading interface to provide a smoother experience while data loads.

As always, we’re continuing to invest in making Iris more powerful, intuitive, and actionable—so you can move faster and make more confident decisions.

If you have any questions or would like to see a demo of new features, please reach out below.