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For ERISA Fiduciaries

Your plan members trust you. But who verifies what the TPA is charging?

ERISA Section 404 holds you personally liable for monitoring plan costs. The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 gave you the statutory right to claims data from your TPA — yet most employers don’t know this right exists. We provide independent benchmarking data and court-ready compliance reports — so you have documented evidence you fulfilled your duty to monitor.

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HIPAA CompliantBAA IncludedERISA-Focused Methodology
3×
increase in ERISA lawsuits since 2020
Personal liability for named fiduciaries
$3.5M
average ERISA settlement
Often not covered by D&O insurance
78%
of plan sponsors don’t benchmark TPA rates
Leaving fiduciary duty undocumented
100,000+
negotiated rates analyzed
Across 6000 facilities and 50 payers
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We Understand Your World

Four roles. One shared pressure: personal liability for a system you can't see inside.

CFO

You sign the checks but can’t see inside the black box.

Your TPA reports savings, but who verifies the contract rates behind those savings? You’re responsible for millions in healthcare spend with almost no independent visibility into whether those rates are competitive.

Benefits Director

You manage the TPA relationship with one hand tied behind your back.

The Fiduciary Gap

What ERISA requires vs. what most plans actually do.

ERISA Section 404(a)(1) requires fiduciaries to act with the “care, skill, prudence, and diligence” of a prudent person. For healthcare plan costs, that means active monitoring — not passive trust.

What the Law Requires
What Most Plans Do
What the Law Requires
Prudent process for selecting and monitoring service providers
What Most Plans Do
Renew TPA contract based on relationship and inertia
What the Law Requires
Documentation of ongoing monitoring activity
What Most Plans Do
No documented benchmarking of contracted rates
Four Tools That Close the Gap

Price intelligence designed for fiduciary documentation.

Each tool is purpose-built to create the documentation trail ERISA requires — not just data, but defensible evidence of prudent monitoring.

Contract Benchmarking

Compare your TPA-contracted rates against independent market benchmarks derived exclusively from publicly available federal MRF data. No carrier relationships. No payor data agreements. Covering 147 procedures across 6000 facilities.

What it proves

You actively monitor market rates with a fully independent benchmark.

TPA Repricing Audit

We audit the contract, not just the claims. Your TPA may show 30% off billed charges while the allowed rate itself is 40% above what the same carrier negotiated at comparable facilities in the same metro. Market data from 50 payer contracts.

How It Works

From data to documentation in two weeks.

We designed the onboarding to require almost nothing from your team. One hour of setup, then ongoing monitoring that runs itself.

01

Share claims data

Week 1
~1 hr from your team

Secure, HIPAA-compliant data transfer. BAA signed before any data is exchanged. We connect directly with your TPA or accept claims files in standard EDI 835/837 or CSV format.

02

We benchmark against market

Week 2
Zero effort from you

Every contracted rate compared against 6,000+ hospital Machine-Readable Files mandated by the Hospital Price Transparency Rule. Market percentile positioning for every CPT code in your plan.

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What Changes

From hope-based compliance to documented fiduciary defense.

BeforeAfter
Before:Hope the TPA is doing their job
After:Verified quarterly with independent market data
Before:No documentation of monitoring activity
Common Questions

Questions ERISA counsel and CFOs actually ask us

We built this product by listening to fiduciaries. These are the questions they asked before signing.

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No. It arms them. Our reports provide the independent data and documentation your counsel needs to demonstrate fiduciary compliance. We generate the evidence — benchmarking data, monitoring logs, methodology disclosure. They provide the legal strategy. Think of it as giving your attorney a loaded briefcase instead of a blank page.

Our methodology disclosure is pre-built for exactly this scenario. Every benchmark is traceable to a CMS-mandated Machine-Readable File source. We disclose our methodology proactively because we built it to withstand scrutiny. When a TPA challenges a finding, you hand them the methodology page — source data, calculation method, quality indicators, and all.

HIPAA compliant with BAA executed before any data exchange. AES-256 encryption at rest, TLS 1.3 in transit. We access claims data — not medical records — through a secure connection with your TPA or via standard file transfer. No PHI is stored longer than analysis requires. We can provide our security documentation and compliance certifications on request.

Self-insured employers with 200+ employees who carry ERISA fiduciary responsibility. If you have a TPA, you’re responsible for monitoring plan costs, and you want independent verification of what you’re paying — this is built for you. We also work with ERISA counsel who advise multiple plan sponsors.

Zero upfront. Shared savings model. We earn a percentage of verified savings from identified overpayments. If we benchmark your contracts and find nothing above market — which happens less than 7% of the time — you pay nothing. Your budget exposure: $0.

Your TPA reports their own performance. We provide independent verification. The difference is structural: we have no payor relationships, no carrier revenue, and no incentive to validate your TPA’s claims. We benchmark against public market data — the same data opposing counsel would use in an ERISA lawsuit.

Take the First Step

The question isn't whether you can afford to monitor your plan. It's whether you can afford not to.

Fiduciary lawsuits have tripled since 2020. Settlements average $3.5 million. And the standard of care isn't whether you intended to monitor — it's whether you documented it. Start building your defense today.

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Every quarter without documented monitoring is a quarter without fiduciary defense.Fiduciary lawsuits don't ask if you meant well. They ask what you documented. Our first quarterly report can be in your counsel's hands within 30 days.

HIPAA CompliantBAA IncludedERISA Section 404 Methodology

You negotiate renewals, field employee complaints, and present to the board — all without independent data to challenge what the TPA reports. You know something might be off, but you can’t prove it.

ERISA Attorney

Your clients call after the lawsuit is filed, not before.

You need proactive monitoring documentation — not reactive defense. When opposing counsel asks what your client did to verify plan costs, "we trusted the TPA" isn’t an answer that wins.

Plan Sponsor / Trustee

You carry personal liability under Section 404.

If the plan overpays, you’re the one who answers for it. Not the TPA. Not the broker. You. And "I didn’t know" is not a fiduciary defense — the duty is to monitor, not to hope.

What the Law Requires
Verification that plan costs are reasonable
What Most Plans Do
Accept TPA-reported “savings” at face value
What the Law Requires
Documented response when issues are identified
What Most Plans Do
No system to detect, track, or respond to pricing issues
What the Law Requires
Exercise CAA data rights to obtain claims data from TPA
What Most Plans Do
Most employers unaware of statutory right granted in 2021

This gap is litigation risk.Every undocumented quarter is a quarter without fiduciary defense. Opposing counsel doesn't ask if you meant well — they ask what you documented.

Our platform currently tracks 100,000+ negotiated rates across 6000facilities — providing the independent benchmarking ERISA Section 404(a) requires.

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What it proves

You verify TPA performance with independent data, not just their reports.

Fiduciary Compliance Report

Quarterly ERISA compliance documentation: monitoring activity, findings, appeals, recoveries. Designed to be shared with ERISA counsel, TPA representatives, or any party who challenges findings.

What it proves

Ongoing monitoring documented and shareable with counsel every quarter.

Methodology Transparency

Detailed methodology disclosure covering data sources (CMS-mandated MRFs), calculation methods, quality indicators, and data freshness. Pre-built for legal challenges.

What it proves

Your process is defensible. Every benchmark has a traceable source.

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03

Receive quarterly fiduciary reports

Ongoing
20 min quarterly review

Court-ready compliance reports documenting monitoring activity, findings, and remediation. Each report is structured around ERISA Section 404 language and designed for counsel review.

04

Document everything for counsel

Ongoing
Automatic

Full methodology disclosure. Every benchmark traceable to a CMS-mandated source. Every finding defensible. Your ERISA attorney gets a documentation trail that proves you did your job.

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After:Court-ready compliance reports every quarter
Before:Accept TPA-reported savings at face value
After:Independent repricing audit verifies every claim
Before:Reactive when litigation arrives
After:Proactive defense built quarter over quarter

The emotional shift matters too.Our clients tell us the biggest change isn't the data — it's the confidence. Confidence that if anyone asks what you did to monitor plan costs, you have a documented answer.