Definitive Healthcare is the market leader in hospital profiles, provider affiliation mapping, and commercial claims–based market intelligence. Medistill covers the dimensions they don't: compliance screening across 130+ sources, litigation history across 10M+ court cases, price transparency from 6B+ negotiated rates, and financial trending from CMS cost reports, all at from $199/mo.
Their strength
Market intelligence + IDN mapping
Our strength
Compliance, litigation, price transparency
What we add
130+ sources + 10M+ cases + 6B+ rates
| Feature | | Definitive Healthcare |
|---|---|---|
| Core approach | Hospital intelligence layer, quality benchmarking, financial trending, price transparency, compliance screening, litigation history, workforce analytics | Commercial market intelligence platform, hospital profiles, provider affiliations, health system mapping, claims-based insights |
| Hospital profiles | 6,100+ hospitals with CMS quality scores, cost report financials, inspection history, provider rosters, and litigation records | Comprehensive hospital profiles including AHA survey data, service lines, ownership, bed counts, and technology adoption |
| Provider affiliations | 2.6M providers linked to 273K facilities via NPI taxonomy, specialty, address, hospital affiliations, compliance flags | Proprietary provider affiliation mapping including employed vs. independent relationships and group practice linkage |
| Health system mapping | CMS ownership and affiliation data for 6,100+ hospitals, system membership, ownership type, and peer grouping | Flagship strength, detailed health system hierarchies, acquisition history, parent–child relationships, IDN mapping |
| Market intelligence | Geographic provider density, procedure volume proxies from cost reports, competitive landscape by region | Proprietary commercial claims–based market intelligence: market share, procedure volumes, referral patterns, payer mix estimates |
| Price transparency (6B+ rates) | 6B+ negotiated rates from 6,100+ hospital MRFs, by payer, procedure, billing code, and hospital. State median comparisons. | Not a primary offering, limited price transparency data; Definitive focuses on market share and volume intelligence |
| Financial trending (5–7 yr) | CMS cost reports: revenue, operating margin, beds, discharges, case mix index, FTE, going back 5–7 years per facility | Financial data available (revenue, beds, FTE) but sourced from AHA surveys and self-reported data; historical depth varies |
| Quality benchmarking | CMS Hospital Compare: star ratings, mortality, readmissions, patient safety indicators, HCAHPS across 6,100+ hospitals | Quality metrics available as part of hospital profiles; not as deep as CMS Compare data enrichment |
| Compliance screening (130+ sources) | Screen every provider at a hospital across 130+ enforcement sources: OIG, SAM, 50 state boards, FDA debarment, NPDB, CMS penalties, court records. Risk scoring A–F. | Not available, compliance screening is outside Definitive Healthcare’s scope |
| Litigation history (10M+ cases) | 10M+ court cases with full opinion text, citation lookup, malpractice trends, and litigation history by hospital or provider | Not available |
| CMS deficiency analysis | 408K+ inspection deficiencies with severity, citation codes, facility history, and peer comparisons | Not available |
| Predictive risk scoring | Compliance risk score (0–100, A–F) based on enforcement history, litigation frequency, and deficiency patterns | Not available |
| plan formulary & prescribing | 1.12M drug–plan formulary mappings; prescribing data by NPI, volume, cost, and drug breakdown | Prescribing data available via Definitive’s claims platform; not plan-level prescribing data |
| Proprietary commercial claims | Not available | Core strength, commercial claims–based procedure volumes, market share, and physician referral patterns |
| AHA survey data | Not available | AHA Annual Survey data integrated, comprehensive hospital characteristics, service line flags, technology adoption |
| Reports | Custom reports generated per question, ask in any language, modify by follow-up. No static templates. Export-ready. | Pre-built dashboards and exportable market reports for territories, service lines, and hospital segments |
| Interface | Ask in any language, get answers in any language. Works on desktop and mobile. Generate custom reports, share with anyone, schedule recurring analyses. API for automation. | Enterprise portal with dashboards, saved lists, CRM integrations, and territory management tools |
| Deployment | Self-serve, instant access, no contract | Enterprise contracts, implementation timelines, dedicated account teams |
| Pricing | from $199/mo unlimited queries | $100K–$200K+/yr |
Use Definitive Healthcare if:
You need proprietary commercial claims–based procedure volumes and market share estimates, deep IDN and health system hierarchy mapping with acquisition history, AHA survey data on hospital characteristics and service lines, CRM-integrated territory management tools, or pre-built exportable market reports for strategic planning and sales targeting. Definitive's commercial data assets are the standard for market intelligence and device/pharma sales enablement.
Use Medistill if:
You need compliance screening across 130+ enforcement sources (OIG, SAM, 50 state boards, NPDB, FDA debarment), litigation history across 10M+ court cases, price transparency from 6B+ negotiated hospital rates, 5–7 year financial trending from CMS cost reports, CMS inspection deficiency analysis across 408K records, or quality benchmarking with peer comparison, at from $199/mo with no contract required.
Use both if:
Keep Definitive Healthcare for commercial market intelligence, IDN mapping, and sales territory analytics where their proprietary claims data is irreplaceable. Add Medistill for compliance screening, litigation history, price transparency, and financial trending, dimensions Definitive does not cover, at from $199/mo alongside your existing Definitive contract.
Pricing
Pro $199 / 500 credits · Business $499 / 1,500 credits · Unlimited $999 ($9,990/yr) · Team from $599/seat
Full access to all 2,000+ datasets. No per-query fees. 1 credit per entity processed.
No credit card required. Expires in 15 days.