• Medicare Advantage
  • Medicaid Managed Care
  • Network Development

Medicare Advantage & Medicaid Provider Network Solutions

Identify Network Gaps. Strengthen Provider Access. Expand With Confidence.

MyQualityCareNetwork helps Medicare Advantage and Medicaid managed care organizations evaluate network adequacy, identify provider access gaps, prioritize contracting opportunities, and develop networks that support market expansion and regulatory readiness.

Health plans of every size, national or small and local, can engage us for network adequacy results.

Illustrative scenario estimate, Orange County, FL · Allergy and Immunology. Click to enlarge.

Specialized Network Solutions for Medicare Advantage and Medicaid

Medicare Advantage Network Solutions

Support Medicare Advantage network development through CMS network adequacy analysis, geographic access evaluations, provider contracting strategy, HSD preparation, and market expansion planning.

  • CMS network adequacy analysis
  • Geographic time-and-distance evaluation
  • Specialty network gap identification
  • HSD preparation and validation
  • Provider recruitment and contracting
  • County and market expansion strategy
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Medicaid Managed Care Network Solutions

Support Medicaid managed care organizations through state-specific network adequacy analysis, provider contracting, network development, behavioral health access planning, LTSS networks, and Medicaid market expansion.

  • State-specific Medicaid adequacy analysis
  • Medicaid MCO provider contracting
  • Specialty and behavioral health networks
  • LTSS/MLTSS network development
  • Medicaid network gap analysis
  • Medicaid procurement and expansion readiness
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Medicare Advantage and Medicaid network adequacy rules are set separately: CMS for Medicare Advantage, and each state's Medicaid contract for Medicaid managed care.

Solutions

Solutions Designed Around Your Network Challenges

From identifying provider access deficiencies to developing stronger networks, MyQualityCareNetwork helps health plans turn network intelligence into practical action.

Market Expansion Readiness

Evaluate provider supply and geographic access before entering new counties or markets.

Targeted Network Gap Closure

Identify potential providers and locations that may offer the greatest improvement in geographic access.

Provider Recruitment and Contracting

Support targeted provider outreach, contract negotiations, and network development strategy.

Regulatory Readiness

Support network data validation, applicable adequacy reporting, and regulatory submission preparation.

Services

From Network Analysis to Network Development

Network Adequacy Assessment

Measure member access to your contracted network against the standards that apply to your market.

What you receive
  • County, specialty, and ZIP-level access results
  • Time-and-distance and minimum provider number findings
  • Specialties below standard, ranked by estimated member impact

Medicare Advantage results use CMS contract-year standards. Medicaid assessments follow each state's managed care contract requirements.

Market Expansion Feasibility

Before you file for a new service area, understand the provider supply and access picture county by county.

What you receive
  • Provider supply counts by county and specialty
  • Estimated access for a proposed service area
  • Counties most likely to need network development before submission

Network Gap Closure Strategy

Turn gap findings into a prioritized list of where added providers would improve access the most.

What you receive
  • Non-par provider candidates ranked by estimated member impact
  • ZIP-level before-and-after access comparisons
  • Scenario summaries for internal planning discussions

Provider Recruitment & Contracting

Support your team's outreach, or engage ours, to bring identified providers into your network.

What you receive
  • Targeted provider outreach lists by specialty and geography
  • Contract negotiation support
  • Network development strategy for priority counties

HSD and Regulatory Data Preparation

Submission-ready network data tables prepared from your contracted roster.

What you receive
  • Provider and facility HSD tables filled from your network data
  • Data validation review with flagged items to resolve before submission
  • Tables tailored to the applicable contract-year or state requirements

HSD table formats apply to Medicare Advantage submissions. Medicaid reporting formats vary by state and are prepared to that state's specification.

Ongoing Network Management

Keep adequacy results current as your roster, the market, and the standards change.

What you receive
  • Roster refreshes with updated access results
  • Monitoring of specialties and counties near their standards
  • Updated reports when contract-year standards are released
Illustrative case study · Medicare Advantage

See How Targeted Provider Contracting Can Improve Network Access

Orange County, Florida · Allergy and Immunology (007). Switch between the current network and a proposed single-provider addition to see how estimated member access changes.

Estimated member access

Current network62.1%
Proposed addition98.0%

Illustrative reference threshold: 90%. Estimated change: +35.9 percentage points.

The deficiency

An estimated 62.1% of members fall within the access standard, below the 90% reference threshold. Multiple ZIP codes sit outside time and distance limits for this specialty.

Discuss Your Network Gaps

Methodology

  • Baseline calculations use drive time and distance.
  • Proposed scenario estimates use straight-line distance.
  • Member geography is estimated from county enrollment and Census population data.
  • A full time-and-distance reanalysis is needed before relying on scenario results.
  • Provider availability, eligibility, contracting interest, and data accuracy require validation. The 98% scenario is illustrative and does not represent confirmed CMS compliance.
How we work

How We Help Health Plans Strengthen Their Networks

01

Assess

Analyze network supply, geographic access, and potential deficiencies.

02

Prioritize

Identify opportunities by specialty, county, provider location, and potential impact.

03

Develop

Support provider recruitment, contracting, and strategic network expansion.

04

Validate

Reassess access, review provider data, and support applicable regulatory readiness.

Sample deliverables

See the Network Intelligence Behind Better Decisions

Engagements produce county-level executive reports, specialty gap analyses, nonparticipating provider opportunity lists, provider data validation examples, and HSD preparation samples. Medicare Advantage deliverables follow CMS HSD formats; Medicaid deliverables are tailored to each state's submission requirements.

Geographic coverage analysis

County and ZIP level views of where your contracted network reaches members and where it falls short.

Specialty gap identification

Every specialty below its access standard, with the current estimated percentage and the requirement it is measured against.

Nonparticipating provider opportunities

Providers in the market who are not in your network, ranked by the gaps they could help close.

HSD preparation samples

Provider and facility HSD tables filled from the contracted network, in the column order CMS templates expect.

Facility table documentation

Facility-level detail by county, ready to transfer into the templates used for submission.

Want to see a report for your market?

Tell us the state, counties, and specialties you are evaluating and we will follow up with a sample tailored to your network.

Request a Sample Report
Leadership

Built by Healthcare Network Leadership. Designed for Health Plan Challenges.

MyQualityCareNetwork combines data-driven geographic network analysis with decades of hands-on managed care executive experience.

Our approach draws on expertise in Medicare Advantage, Medicaid managed care, provider network contracting, geographic expansion, regulatory reporting, and network operations.

Identifying a network deficiency is only the beginning. Our focus is on developing practical strategies that help health plans prioritize contracting opportunities, strengthen provider relationships, and improve network readiness.

Learn more about us
Felix Gonzalez, Founder of MyQualityCareNetwork

Felix Gonzalez

Founder, MyQualityCareNetwork

  • More than 30 years of managed care experience
  • Provider network development leadership
  • Medicare Advantage network experience
  • Medicaid managed care contracting
  • Network expansion initiatives
  • CMS HSD and adequacy experience
  • Provider network operations
  • Executive leadership

County-level views

Approved provider counts by provider specialty, state, county and ZIP codes across your coverage areas.

Specialty filters

Primary care, OB/GYN, dermatology, ENT, and all required specialties under CMS or State Medicaid standards.

Network Readiness

Understand if your expansion network is ready for submission. Know if you are meeting network access requirements before you submit.

Plans of any size

National, regional, and small local plans can engage us for network adequacy results.

Network adequacy in focus

See the gap. Find the opportunity. Measure the difference.

Evaluate member access by specialty and ZIP code, identify non-par providers with potential to close gaps, compare your current network with a proposed contracting scenario, and receive a full report of the specialty gaps that remain before you submit for expansion.

Current estimated member access

62.1%

With one proposed non-par provider

98%

Example specialty access threshold

90%

Illustrated case: Orange County, Florida · Allergy and Immunology (007). Percentages describe estimated members with access, not the percentage of providers or specialties meeting requirements.

01

Pinpoint specialty access gaps

County and ZIP views highlight where estimated access falls below the selected specialty’s standards. In this example, about 53,191 of 140,207 estimated members are outside the 15-mile distance rule for Allergy and Immunology.

ZIP-level coverage overview; results vary by specialty.
Allergy and Immunology: current network access before a scenario addition.

02

Identify non-par providers with potential impact

CMS supply data identifies providers outside your existing network. Candidates are ranked by the estimated members they could bring within range, helping focus contracting discussions on locations with the greatest potential impact.

CMS non-par provider candidates ranked by estimated member impact. Supply-file inclusion does not establish contracting interest or availability.

03

Compare access before and after a proposed addition

Model a non-par provider’s location before pursuing a contract. Here, one proposed addition raises estimated member access from 62.1% to 98%, above the example’s 90% threshold. The map also identifies the gaps still left to close.

Scenario estimate: +35.9 percentage points in member access, with 4 ZIP gaps and about 2,848 estimated members still outside range. Blue marks newly covered ZIPs; green marks existing coverage; red marks remaining gaps.

04

Deliver the full gap report before you submit for expansion

Every analysis ends in a complete report listing each specialty that still falls short, the share of estimated members with access today, and the access standard that specialty must reach. Alongside the gaps, we show providers in the market that are not in your network so your team or ours can target them for contracting and close gaps before you submit for expansion.

Network Adequacy Summary: 25 of 43 specialties meet the estimated access standard. Each remaining specialty is listed with current estimated access and the percentage required, and whether the shortfall is time/distance, provider count, or both.

What the report shows

  • Every specialty below its access standard, listed by county
  • Current estimated member access against the percentage each specialty must reach
  • Whether the shortfall is time/distance, provider count, or both
  • Market providers outside your network positioned to close each gap
  • Contracting targets your team or ours can pursue on your behalf

Market providers are drawn from CMS supply data. Inclusion does not establish contracting interest, availability, or that a gap will close.

Screenshots show an illustrative analysis, not a guarantee of results. Baseline access uses drive time and distance; scenario additions use straight-line distance and estimated ZIP-level member geography. Contracting, provider eligibility, availability, and a full time-and-distance reanalysis must be confirmed.

Submission-ready reporting

HSD tables, ready for CMS or State Medicaid submission.

We deliver Health Service Delivery (HSD) tables built in the CMS Appendix H and Appendix J column layout, filled from your contracted network and ready to include in submissions to CMS or a State Medicaid RFP. Each engagement is tailored to the requirements set by CMS for the contract year, or by your State Medicaid contract.

Provider HSD table: SSA state and county codes, provider names, NPIs, specialties, specialty codes, and practice addresses in the CMS Appendix H column layout.
Facility HSD table: facility and service types, facility codes, NPIs, staffed bed counts, and facility addresses in the CMS Appendix J column layout.

What you receive

  • Provider HSD table — one row per provider location, specialty and county served
  • Facility HSD table — one row per facility or service type location
  • Columns, order, and specialty and facility codes matching the HSD table structure
  • Tailored to the contract year's CMS standards or your State Medicaid contract requirements
  • A review sheet flagging missing NPIs, bed counts, and address questions before you submit

Plans submit HSD data using the templates downloaded from CMS's HPMS system; our tables are prepared in that same layout so your team can transfer them directly. Only contracted providers are listed. Prepared tables support your submission and do not by themselves constitute CMS or State Medicaid approval.

What you'll see

Aggregate-only views, by design.

Health plan users see network coverage at the county and specialty level. Private provider documents, credentialing data, and personal contact details are never exposed without explicit provider approval.

  • Provider counts by specialty
  • Provider counts by state and county
  • Telehealth vs. in-person availability
  • Accepted-patient indicators
  • Languages served (aggregate)
  • General network readiness signals
Engagements

Hire us for network adequacy results.

National, regional, and small local plans can commission network adequacy work for the markets they serve or are considering. Results are operational estimates built from the contract year, county, and specialty standards you select.

Adequacy analysis

Access measured by drive time and distance against county and specialty standards for a contract year.

Gap and ZIP views

County and ZIP level coverage, with non-par providers that would close the largest remaining gaps.

Planning documentation

County, specialty, and ZIP detail in spreadsheet and PDF form for internal review.

Start a plan access discussion.

Tell us where you're looking — state, counties, specialties — and we'll share the relevant aggregate coverage profile and follow up to schedule a network development conversation.

Subject to provider approval, credentialing, contracting, and applicable agreement terms. Aggregate views are operational planning tools and do not represent a formal CMS network adequacy determination.

FAQ

Questions from health plans

Our assessments are planning estimates that support your submission work. They do not guarantee regulatory approval or compliance.

Build the network before the gap shows up on a CMS report.

Whether you're a behavioral health provider exploring network participation opportunities or a health plan starting plan access discussions, we'd like to hear from you.