HealthLink Dimensions Profile Solution
Healthcare Networks & Affiliations
Understand the Networks Behind Every Provider
Healthcare marketers, payers, and recruiters often struggle to accurately target providers due to missing or outdated affiliation data. Without clear insight into whether a clinician is employed by a health system, aligned with a specific hospital, or part of an independent group, your outreach can miss the mark—resulting in wasted spend and inefficient engagement.
HealthLink's Healthcare Networks & Affiliations provides verified insight into how providers are connected to care organizations. You’ll see whether a physician is employed, contracted, affiliated, or operating independently—along with their associated practice structures. This gives you the clarity to build better audience segments, recruit with precision, and align messaging across integrated delivery systems.
For commercial plan participation and claims-based indicators, see our new Claims, Insurance, and Other Insights page.
Verified with Scale, Built for Strategy
All affiliations are verified using a combination of commercial claims, provider rosters, enrollment data, partner sources, and geographic overlays. This data is then validated using a hybrid process that includes model-based attribution and relationship mapping, direct validation by our in-house data research team, and monthly updates tied to our master clinician database.
With over 25 years of experience in healthcare data science, HealthLink Dimensions combines structured data methodology with proven validation workflows—ensuring every affiliation is traceable to the individual NPI. Where artificial intelligence is used, it supports only the classification and confidence scoring of network relationships. Final inclusion is determined through structured business logic and human oversight to ensure credibility and compliance.
What's Included
Our demographic dataset includes a robust array of provider and facility attributes:
Health System and Hospital Affiliations
Identify if a provider is employed by, contracted with, or affiliated with a specific system or hospital.
Practice Type and Ownership
Segment solo practitioners, group members, and hospital-employed physicians by ownership model.
Independent vs. Employed Flags
Understand the provider’s relationship with larger organizations and their likely role in decision-making.
Link to Facility or Group Affiliation
Each record connects to related facility data—see Practitioner & Facility Demographics for full facility and group-level detail.
Target Smarter with Network Intelligence
- Run exclusion-based targeting by suppressing providers affiliated with specific systems or hospitals to minimize overlap.
- Identify independent or loosely affiliated providers more likely to be open to alignment.
- Target unaffiliated or regionally adjacent providers to grow referral pathways and service lines.
- Ensure your directories reflect real-world provider relationships—validated and updated monthly.
FAQs
Can I target providers affiliated with specific hospitals or systems?
Yes. You can include or exclude providers based on verified NPI-level affiliation data.
How do you validate this data?
We use commercial claims, provider rosters, enrollment files, and geographic overlays. Relationships are modeled using proprietary methods and confirmed through direct research.
Do you include health insurance participation?
That data is now part of a separate solution. Visit the Claims, Insurance, and Other Insights page for commercial payer alignment information.
