The payer set your rates. Did anyone push back?

When you joined a payer's network, someone on their side handed you a fee schedule built to protect their margin, not yours. On your side, there usually was not time to study it, no benchmark to compare it against, and no real bargaining position to ask for more. So you signed. Most practices do. Then the contract renews on autopilot, year after year, while your rent, your staffing, and your supply costs climb and your reimbursement does not move.

The gap between what a payer pays you and what it pays the practice across town for the identical code is often wider than physicians expect. Sometimes it is a few percent. Sometimes it is the difference between a payer that is worth keeping and one that is costing you money to stay in network. You cannot negotiate what you cannot see, and the payers are counting on that.

Glenwood has worked payer relationships for independent practices for 30+ years. We can show you what the rates in your specialty and region tend to look like, and which arguments move a payer and which ones get ignored. We do not sit at the negotiating table for you. We hand you the numbers and the strategy so you walk in knowing exactly where you stand and what to ask for. The review is free, and you keep whatever we find whether or not you ever work with us.

What a Contract Review Covers

A clear look at where your contracts stand and what is worth doing about it.
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Powered by today's leading AI models, we map your current rates against broad market data to find real benchmarks for your specialty and region. We focus on the codes you bill most, because that is where a few points either way decides your year. Seeing the gap in black and white means your next conversation with a payer runs on hard numbers, not guesswork.
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Not every contract is worth keeping. Some payers pay slowly, deny aggressively, and demand more administrative work than their volume is worth. We look at what each payer actually nets you once the cost of collecting from them is counted, and we tell you plainly which ones to renegotiate, which to restructure, and which a healthy practice could walk away from without missing the revenue.
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When a payer offers a flat renewal at last year's rate, the easy thing is to sign and move on. We give you the read on whether to sign, push back, or shop, using your own utilization data and our regional benchmarks, so the position you take into that conversation is grounded in numbers rather than nerve. A renewal is the one real opening you get, and most practices let it pass without using it.

What You Walk Away With

Concrete findings you can use, even if you take them to the table yourself.

• Where your rates sit against the benchmark for your specialty and region, on the codes that actually move your revenue.
• Which payers are earning their place in your network and which ones are quietly costing you to keep.
• The public fee schedules and market comparisons behind every number, organized by today's leading AI models, so each figure is one you can defend at the table.
• A plain recommendation on each contract: sign, renegotiate, restructure, or walk, with the reasoning behind it.
• No obligation. If your contracts are already strong, we will tell you that and you will have lost nothing but the time it took to share your numbers.

SEE IT BEFORE YOU ASK FOR YOURS

A sample of the memo we deliver

This is the kind of report you receive after a review: where your rates sit against the benchmark, which payers are worth keeping, and a plain recommendation on each contract. The example is fully anonymized, so you can see the format and the depth before you share a single number of your own.

View a sample strategy memo (PDF)

Why we do this for free

No catch, and we would rather be straight about the reason. The practices that see exactly where their contracts stand often decide they would rather have us run their revenue cycle than carry it alone. We would rather earn that by showing you something genuinely useful first than by talking at you. So the review is free, with no expectation either way. It is one complimentary review per practice, our way of introducing ourselves.

For the practices that do become GlaceRCM clients, this is not a one-off. We run the same contract and payer-mix review every year, so your rates never drift quietly out of step with the market again, and we manage your credentialing and enrollment as part of the relationship. The free review is simply the first look. The ongoing discipline is what keeps the money where it belongs.