Renewal Benchmark exists because employer health plans got expensive faster than they got transparent. The data to understand plan pricing is public now, but it arrives as enormous machine-readable files nobody has time to read. We read them. Then we put what matters on one page for the people who have to sign the renewal.
The problem we work on
Health benefit costs have climbed by double digits for years, and for most companies the plan is now one of the largest expenses they approve with the least independent information. The pricing data to change that finally exists. Using it just takes a team whose whole job is reading it.
Our approach
We start from public data. Hospitals and insurers publish their negotiated rates under federal price-transparency rules; that's our raw material.
We map it to your markets. A list of the zip codes where your people live is enough to build a picture of the prices your plan is exposed to.
We keep it readable. The output is a short benchmark readout, not a data dump — written for the renewal conversation.
Principles
If the data doesn't support a clear answer, we say so.
Every employer deserves to see the prices behind their plan.
The renewal calendar is the deadline that matters — we work backward from it.