HCRIS vs the alternatives
HCRIS is self-serve hospital financial intelligence on Medicare cost reports — multi-year P&L, MS-DRG mix, patient-origin ZIPs, system roll-ups, CMS quality, and 990 community benefit, all bundled at one transparent $499/yr with a free tier. Here's the honest head-to-head with the incumbents — including where each still wins.
The long-established hospital-data incumbent — a $445/yr base subscription with a dozen separately-priced add-on “apps” layered over CMS cost reports, MedPAR claims, and OPPS.
A worksheet-retrieval service — CMS-format cost-report replicas (Excel/PDF) for 6,000+ hospitals back to FY1996. $90 per report or $2,000/yr.
The enterprise healthcare-commercial-intelligence platform — cost reports plus claims, affiliations, technology installs, and payer data across 9,000+ facilities. Quote-only, typically tens of thousands per year.