The Medicare Data Authority™

No blocked brands. No blocked accounts. No blocked payors.

Pioneer

First company to analyze Medicare data

$0 Trillion

Annual Medicare Claims Processed

0+

Brands

0+ Years

Longitudinal Data Available

Expertise Forged Across Five Arenas

No competitor has operated under all five of these accountability layers at once. This is proof-of-methodology, expertise, and technique.

Pharmaceutical Commercial Validation

CareSet's expertise enabled 200+ brands to build go-to-market strategy across oncology, cardiology, immunology, rare disease, adult vaccines, and specialty pharmacy supply chains.

Investigative Journalism

ProPublica and The Wall Street Journal have used CareSet's Medicare analysis in published investigations requiring extensive methodology validation.

Federal Data Governance & Policy

CareSet holds the VRDC access, granting us 100% Medicare access, Parts A, B, and D. We presented at The White House Open Data Innovation Summit and the Biden Cancer Moonshot Summit.

Academic Peer Review

Published in Abdominal Radiology, Health Services Research, Journal of the American College of Radiology, PLOS ONE, Lippincott / Medical Care, and the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

The White House & Emergency Response

HHS and federal COVID-19 response teams used CareSet's data infrastructure during the pandemic. Emergency conditions test methodology in ways routine use does not.

Intelligence is Organized Around Where You are in the Drug Lifecycle

One Medicare data foundation. The questions change with each stage. The data does not. Leveraging comprehensive MONTHLY Medicare FFS claims data, we help organizations uncover opportunities that may be missed in traditional healthcare datasets.

Lifecycle Stages
01

Pre-Clinical Strategy

Which indications have the strongest Medicare signal, and how large is the untreated population?

Treatment Journey Diagnostic Journey MarketView Disease Benchmark Impact

25+ years of longitudinal treatment-sequence depth. 100% of Medicare FFS claims, no sampling.

02

Clinical Trial Recruitment

Which investigators are closest to your patients, and is your trial network reaching underrepresented populations?

KOL Targeting Health Equity Patient Proximity Networks

4-hour proximity network mapping. Race, ethnicity, and income segmentation across Medicare.

03

Market Access

What does the payer landscape actually look like, and where will access work against you at launch?

Treatment Journey Diagnostic Journey MarketView by Pharmacy Type Part D Payer and Plan-Level Data HEOR

Plan-level Part D visibility across every plan · Includes restricted accounts, no brand blocking.

04

Commercial Operations

Which physicians are managing your patients this month, and which ones are your commercial data missing?

Monthly Alerts Treatment Journey MarketView Targeting

10 to 25% NPI lift over standard commercial lists. We see all 226 AMCs not in standard commercial datasets.

05

Regulatory, IRA AND PART D

What is your Part D gross expenditure exposure, and how does your biologic discard liability break down by brand?

IRA Part D Spending Biologic Discard Rebate LIS / Catastrophic Coverage

Claim-level discard data by brand. LIS population segmented by plan.

Centers Of Excellence

Centers Of Excellence

Specialized disease intelligence powered by adjudicated Medicare claims data across the patient journey.

Patient journeys in complex diseases—hematology, oncology, immunology, rare diseases—demand more than aggregate data.

They demand the ability to interpret it correctly. When conditions affect fewer than 200,000 patients nationally, or rare cancers impact fewer than 15 per 100,000 annually, standard commercial data sources fail. Diagnosis delays persist. Patients fragment across care settings. Specialty pharmacies block prescription records. These gaps are not oversights, they are structural constraints in how healthcare data is collected and shared.

With CareSet's access to 100% of MONTHLY Medicare data, Parts A, B and D, we see what standard commercial datasets cannot. Medicare's closed claims database fills what commercial sources cannot reach. Our expertise with this data and many therapeutic areas enables pharmaceutical teams to identify advancing patients, map lines of therapy with precision, and alert physicians at the moment intervention matters most. Without deep Medicare claims expertise, these insights remain invisible.

Oncology
Rare Disease
Neurology
Immunology
Cardiology
Ophthalmology
Vaccines
Oncology
Rare Disease
Neurology
Immunology
Cardiology
Ophthalmology
Vaccines

Why clients continue working with CareSet

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HCP Trigger Alerts identified early adopters 60 days before commercial sources. In our oncology launch, we converted 18 of 24 targeted prescribers.

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The 10 to 25% NPI lift meant we reached departments not in our previous commercial lists. Incremental reach with no additional acquisition cost.

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We found three additional high-volume prescribers in rheumatology using CareSet's AMC unlock. They were not surfaced in our previous data source. We converted two of three within six months.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does CareSet do?

CareSet is a healthcare analytics company that turns 100% of Medicare, Medicare Advantage, and Medicaid claims data into pharmaceutical enterprise operational intelligence. Working with the government open and claim-based datasets since 2012, we help pharma teams at every stage of the drug lifecycle, from pre-clinical and medical affairs strategy through market access, commercial operations, and regulatory decisions. We maintain a commitment to open data and public good alongside commercial work, operating under five independent accountability frameworks: pharmaceutical commercial validation, investigative journalism, federal governance, academic peer review, and federal emergency response.

How can pharmaceutical companies access Medicare Fee-for-Service claims data?

CareSet obtained our first CMS Data Use Agreement with VRDC access in 2015. Presently, CareSet leverages 100% adjudicated Medicare claims across Parts A, B, C, and D. CareSet holds the longest continuous track record of commercial access to complete Medicare data and obtained early access to monthly updates at the beginning of COVID-19.

What is the difference between Medicare census data and a sample?

CareSet delivers census-level Medicare claims data, 100% of adjudicated claims without extrapolation or projection. Competing solutions from sample-based claim aggregators miss low-volume prescribers and overlook providers outside voluntary sharing arrangements, which distorts competitive intelligence. CareSet's approach ensures you see every prescriber decision and payer across the Medicare FFS population. For specialty drugs and rare diseases, where low-volume prescribers represent your entire audience, CareSet's access to monthly Medicare claims, 100% of Parts A, B, C and D, is the standard for decision making across the drug lifecycle.

How does CareSet help with market access in the pharmaceutical industry?

CareSet reveals your actual payer mix and how formulary and specialty pharmacy coverage translates into real-world prescribing, persistence, and treatment adherence behavior. CareSet shows plan-level Part D visibility across MAPD and PDP, so you can know payer-driven treatment patterns before you enter pricing discussions. For specialty drugs, despite specialty pharmacy and institutional pharmacy blocking data from manufacturers, CareSet clarifies the differences between specialty pharmacies, their networks, and their impacts on the patient journey. This lets your market access strategy rest on CareSet's data-driven expert analysis and insights rather than assumptions.

How does CareSet show the gap between payer formularies and actual prescribing behavior?

Medicare is the dominant payer across oncology, cardiology, immunology, and neurology. CareSet connects payer policy and formulary decisions directly to prescribing outcomes, showing where access barriers exist and which payers drive or block adoption. CareSet's claims data reveals how prior authorization, step therapy, and coverage decisions affect actual patient treatment patterns, allowing you to model payer impact and build managed market strategy on real prescribing behavior rather than payer contracts alone.

What makes CareSet's real-world evidence compelling for regulatory submissions?

Partnering with the largest manufacturers to present data to the FDA, CareSet's adjudicated Medicare claims are real-world data that supports treatment sequencing analysis, comparative effectiveness studies, disease burden analysis, and line-of-therapy modeling across the entire Medicare population. RWE research using CareSet's data has been published in peer-reviewed journals including Health Services Research, Journal of the American College of Radiology, and PLOS ONE. With longitudinal claims data dating back to 1999, and experience analyzing patient journeys, treatment patterns, and outcomes, CareSet maintains leading edge methodologies necessary to clean, process, and interpret claims data effectively, capturing long-term trends that enable regulatory submissions and strengthen partnership credibility.

How does CareSet support patient journey analytics?

CareSet's Medicare claims link inpatient, outpatient, physician, and pharmacy in one dataset to map the complete treatment pathway, including the hospital systems that do not resell their claims data to commercial claims aggregators. We can show your team where patients are lost before treatment initiation, which specialists and referral patterns drive treatment decisions, and how site-of-care varies by geography and payer and impacts treatment adherence.

Our clients quickly identify where their new and existing therapies can compete. In complex disease areas such as hematology, oncology, and immunology with variable treatment regimens, sequences, and combos, CareSet's deep expertise, battle tested frameworks, and knowledgeable teammates uncover patterns in days that would otherwise remain invisible. Industry leading reporting speed on KPIs including treatment switching rates, therapy discontinuations, and prescribing behaviors all drive pharma decision making and medical policy.

How does CareSet support HCP targeting and provider intelligence?

CareSet clients see healthcare providers at the HCP, NPI, department, and Health System levels. Sales and marketing leaders confidently leverage CareSet to identify KOLs, prescriber networks, and assess individual physician treatment patterns that standard commercial sources simply cannot assess, including reaching the 226 Academic Medical Centers resolved to the treating physician. Typically, CareSet reports on an additional 10 to 25% of prescribers invisible in standard commercial databases. In rare disease and oncology, manufacturers can block prescription data from data aggregators, and specialty pharmacies and institutions withhold data from manufacturers. Despite the blocking in both directions, CareSet fills critical gaps by uncovering previously unidentified and hidden drug usage, enabling timely engagement with advancing patient populations.

What sets CareSet apart as more vendors gain access to Medicare claims data?

Access to Medicare data is not the same as expertise in using it. CareSet's clients leverage 25+ years of longitudinal claims data, frameworks, process, patient privacy systems, working in tandem with Medicare claims experts, beginning in 2012. Combined together, we offer the best understanding of patient journeys, treatment patterns, and physician decision-making that simply cannot be replicated. CareSet's algorithms and analytical approaches have already made impacts across healthcare, with data consumers ranging beyond pharmaceutical commercialization, to investigative journalism, federal governance, academic research, federal emergency response, as well as ACOs, health systems and health insurers. Raw data can be misleading without proper context and analysis. CareSet's longest continuous track record of commercial Medicare access means we understand the nuance, complexity, and methodology necessary to transform data into operational intelligence.

How does CareSet approach data integrity and methodology?

CareSet's systems are validated across five independent accountability frameworks. Pharmaceutical clients use CareSet's work to guide go-to-market strategy across dozens of launches, monitoring hundreds of Brands. ProPublica and The Wall Street Journal have relied on CareSet's Medicare analysis for investigative reporting. As a recent visitor to the White House to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Medicare, CareSet also presented at the White House Open Data Innovation Summit, and the Biden Cancer Moonshot Summit. In mission critical moments, the Federal COVID-19 response teams used CareSet's data testing and validation infrastructure during the pandemic to assess hospital and skilled nursing facility affiliations and bed utilization. Academic researchers cite CareSet's data in dozens of peer-reviewed publications. This diversity of validation across commercial, journalistic, governmental, academic, and emergency applications tests CareSet's methodology in ways routine use does not. As more companies gain access to Medicare data for the first time, CareSet's 25+ years of experience remains the difference between raw numbers and actionable insights.


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