Transform Network Design from Guesswork into Strategy

Healthcare organizations face growing pressure to optimize networks and control costs but lack clear visibility into provider performance and referral patterns. Ascent™ Network provides the intelligence to build, evaluate, and strengthen high-performing provider networks. By combining provider performance data, market intelligence, and network modeling, Ascent Network helps organizations identify the right providers, reduce leakage, improve referrals, and expand networks with confidence.

ASCENT NETWORK

Healthcare analytics for high performing networks

Network Design

Analyze network impact

Strategically build, evaluate, optimize, and manage provider networks.

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Provider Insights

Strengthen your network

Drill into a comprehensive dataset of provider profiles, with cost and quality metrics, to discover and recruit the best providers.

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Episode Analytics

Improve clinical performance

Utilize 300+ defined healthcare episodes to get a clear view of cost, quality, and variation across the patient journeys.

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Referral Analytics

Referral and leakage insights

Visualize referral flows and identify leakage patterns to help strengthen high-value referral pathways.

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Network Design

Design, model, and optimize high-performing provider networks.

Assess
Define Strategy & Needs

  • Align network guide with clinical, financial, and operational strategy
  • Evaluate current-state performance and gaps

Connect
Unify and Integrate Data ​

  • Ingest provider, claims, and market intelligence data  ​
  • Standardize and govern data for a single source of truth ​

Build
Create Network Models

  • Define network design rules and performance benchmarks ​
  • Generate transparent iterative models at scale ​

Optimize
Improve Performance

  • Simulate, score, and refine network designs​
  • Balance access, quality, cost, and outcomes

Visualize
Explore & Collaborate

  • Use interactive maps and analytics to explore scenarios
  • Collaborate across clinical, operations, and finance teams

Inform
Drive Decisions & Action

  • Deliver model outputs and recommendations to stakeholders
  • Turn network strategy into confident, data-driven actions

Meaningful Data. Measurable Impact.

~ 39 %

reduction in unplanned readmissions and preventable complications1

$ 0.40 PM

savings impact from preferred shared patients1

$ 1,047

decrease in cost per episodes1

1Customer results from a national primary care network.

What Sets Ascent Network Apart

Expand your provider network

Enter new markets with confidence using competitive and performance data.

Optimize network performance

Identify high and low performing providers by analyzing cost, utilization, and outcomes relative to your benchmarks. 

Reduce unwanted leakage

Route patients to high-performing, in-network providers to reduce leakage and improve care coordination. 

Design high-performing networks built for success

Build efficient networks with strong specialty coverage that align with your networks value-based care goals. 

Deliver value across your organization

Build and grow high performing networks with data driven insight.

  • Identify and activate high value providers based on cost and quality performance
  • Reduce leakage by understanding referral patterns and keeping care in-network
  • Drive growth by identifying expansion opportunities and entering new markets with confidence
  • Align network strategy with care delivery across clinical, financial, and operational teams
  • Leverage market wide intelligence and benchmarks to compare performance and reduce variation

Make confident network decisions with comprehensive insight into performance, markets, and member behavior.

  • Model and tier network configurations to evaluate performance and member coverage
  • Identify high performing providers across cost, quality, utilization, and referral behavior
  • Design specialty networks based on episodic performance and referral patterns
  • Guide members to high value providers through data driven engagement and directory insights

Drive better cost, quality, and member outcomes with smarter network design and management.

  • Model network changes to understand impact on cost and quality before execution
  • Leverage market benchmarks and peer comparisons to identify gaps and opportunities
  • Reduce total cost of care by addressing unwarranted variation and improving provider performance
  • Identify high performing providers across cost, quality, and care delivery

Strengthen oversight and performance of provider networks to improve outcomes and ensure healthcare access.

  • Ensure network optimization and access through market wide provider visibility and benchmarking
  • Model the impact of network changes before implementation to make informed strategic decisions
  • Identify high and low performing providers using risk-adjusted cost, quality, and outcomes data
  • Reduce unnecessary spend and variation to better manage limited public program budgets
  • Optimize referral patterns to minimize out of network leakage and improve care coordination for vulnerable populations

Design Smarter Networks, Deliver Better Outcomes

Move from manual reporting to scalable, predictive, workflow-ready intelligence. Ascent Network empowers organizations to build, evaluate, and optimize networks with confidence, turning data into actionable strategy.

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