specification: FinOps Framework
specificationVersion: '1.0'
schema: https://www.finops.org/framework/
provider: Serif Health
providerId: serif-health
created: '2026-06-21'
modified: '2026-06-21'
reconciled: false
tags:
- Healthcare
- Price Transparency
- Negotiated Rates
- Payer
- Data
- FinOps
- Cost Management
- FOCUS
description: >-
  FinOps view of Serif Health spend. Serif Health bills through sales-led
  subscriptions for its price-transparency data products - the pricing API
  (negotiated rates and distributions), Find Care and Provider Directory APIs,
  the analytics portal, and custom data delivery / extracts. Spend is driven by
  API query volume and the scope of data licensed (EINs, NPIs, taxonomy codes,
  regions, payers). Public dollar amounts are not listed; cost meters below are
  modeled from documented usage dimensions and are not reconciled.
notes: >-
  Pricing is not publicly published; verify subscription fees, query allowances,
  and overage terms against the Serif Health contract during reconciliation.
sources:
- https://www.serifhealth.com/platform/products/apis
- https://www.serifhealth.com/platform/products/data-delivery
- https://www.serifhealth.com/blog/announcing-our-payer-price-transparency-analytics-portal-api
- https://focus.finops.org/focus-specification/v1-3/
alignedWith:
  framework: FinOps Foundation Framework
  frameworkUrl: https://www.finops.org/framework/
  dataSpec: FOCUS
  dataSpecVersion: '1.3'
  dataSpecUrl: https://focus.finops.org/focus-specification/v1-3/
publisherName: Serif Health
serviceCategory: Healthcare Data and Analytics
billingModel:
  pricingCategory: Subscription-Based
  billingFrequency: Annual
  billingCurrency: USD
  chargeCategories:
  - Usage
  - Purchase
focusColumns:
  ServiceName: Serif Health Pricing API
  ServiceCategory: Healthcare Data and Analytics
  ProviderName: Serif Health
  PublisherName: Serif Health
  InvoiceIssuerName: Serif Health
  BillingCurrency: USD
  ChargeCategory: Usage
  PricingCategory: Subscription-Based
meters:
- name: api_queries
  description: API queries against the rates, distributions, find-care, and provider-directory endpoints.
  unit: requests
  aggregation: sum
  dimensions:
  - account
  - api
- name: data_extracts
  description: Custom data pulls / extracts licensed for specific EINs, NPIs, taxonomy codes, regions, or payers.
  unit: extracts
  aggregation: sum
  dimensions:
  - account
  - scope
- name: subscription_fee
  description: Recurring subscription fee for API and analytics-portal access.
  unit: contract
  aggregation: sum
  dimensions:
  - account
principles:
- name: Visibility
  description: Track API query volume per key/workload against the contracted query allowance.
- name: Allocation
  description: Tag API keys per team / product and map data extracts to internal cost centers.
- name: Optimization
  description: Scope queries by region, payer, and code to the data actually needed; prefer distributions over high-volume per-rate pulls where a benchmark suffices.
- name: Accountability
  description: Review monthly query burn and extract spend against the subscription budget and renewal terms.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com