About us
An independent lens on public healthcare data.
Taggart Terminal is a specialized research firm. We exist to make the growing body of public healthcare pricing and directory data usable, accurate, and trustworthy — for the people making decisions with it.
Our mission
Turn public data into public value
Federal rules now require payers to publish enormous amounts of pricing and directory information. In principle, that data can inform fairer contracts, better research, and more honest consumer tools. In practice, it arrives in formats that are difficult to use and easy to misread.
We close that gap. We ingest, normalize, reconcile, and cross-check public healthcare data so that providers, researchers, and product teams can rely on it — without ever touching private or protected information.
How we operate
Small, focused, and accountable to the data
We are an independent firm, deliberately narrow in scope. We don't sell advertising, we don't broker patient data, and we aren't a subsidiary of a payer or provider system. That independence is what lets our analysis stay honest.
Our work is organized around a few core disciplines: data engineering, research and analysis, and a compliance-minded review of how every dataset is sourced and used.
What we value
The principles behind the work
Traceability over volume
Every figure we publish can be traced back to a public source. We'd rather deliver a defensible answer than an impressive-sounding one.
A hard line on private data
We work only with public and permissioned sources and never handle protected health information. The boundary is simple, and we don't blur it.
Independence
We aren't owned by or acting for any payer, provider, or agency. Our conclusions answer only to the evidence.
Usefulness
Research only matters if someone can act on it. We build for the provider at the contracting table, the academic writing the paper, and the team shipping the consumer app.
Our disciplines
The functions that keep the work honest
Taggart Terminal is organized around these areas of responsibility.
Data Engineering
Builds the pipelines that ingest and process large public datasets — including payer Transparency in Coverage files — reliably and at scale.
Research & Analysis
Turns processed data into benchmarks and studies, and works directly with academic and provider partners on their questions.
Compliance & Data Governance
Reviews how each source is obtained and used, keeps us firmly on the public-data side of the line, and holds the rest of the firm to it.
Have a question data can answer?
Tell us what you're trying to understand about the public healthcare market. If it's in the public record, we can probably help you see it clearly.