HealthRate and Stonebrook Risk Solutions Announce Partnership to Help Health Plans and Employers Control Catastrophic Claim Costs

Partnership adds specialty-network price discovery fortransplants and cell and gene therapies to Stonebrook's clinical and costmanagement services.

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Carson City, NV., November 2026 – HealthRate, Inc., a healthcare price discovery and procurement platform for catastrophic claims,today announced a partnership with Stonebrook Risk Solutions. Together they will help health plans and self-funded employers manage the cost of high-dollarspecialty care.

Stonebrook brings clinical and cost management expertise across several disciplines. HealthRate adds a platform that comparesspecialty-network contract rates for complex care, including organ and bonemarrow transplants and cell and gene therapies.

Through the partnership, HealthRate will incorporate its capabilities into Stonebrook’s existing platform and ecosystem. Stonebrook clients can see their cost and quality options and compare specialty networks before a network is selected and care begins. That gives them more choice and more control over some of the largest claims a plan will face, and it builds on Stonebrook's coordinated approach to clinical and cost management.

“Payers that carry the risk for transplants and cell and gene therapies almost always have more than one rate available to them through different specialty networks,” said Tim Michaels, Founder and CEO of HealthRate. “Exploring those options before care begins is simply prudent, and for many plan sponsors it’s part of their fiduciary duty. Stonebrook already helps clients manage complex care, and this partnership makes it easier for them to review and compare their options.”

“Catastrophic claims represent some of the most significant financial exposures facing health plans and self-funded employers,” said Mark Angard, CEO of Stonebrook Risk Solutions. “Our partnership with Health Rate strengthens Stonebrook's ability to address these costs through greater pricing transparency, informed network selection, and measurable financial accountability. By incorporating HealthRate's specialty-network price discovery capabilities into our broader clinical cost-management platform, we can help our clients achieve better financial outcomes while maintaining access to high-quality care.”

About HealthRate
HealthRate, Inc. is an award-winning healthcare price discovery and procurement platform focused on catastrophic claims, including organ transplants, bone marrow transplants, and cell and gene therapies. HealthRate helps health plans,self-funded employers and their partners select the optimal care for each case.Its platform has been recognized by HIMSS,  is fully  integrated with SRTR outcomes data, and itserves more than 1 million members nationally.

About Stonebrook Risk Solutions
Stonebrook Risk Solutions is a healthcare cost-management platform serving health plans, stop-loss carriers, third-party administrators, and self-funded employer programs. Through an integrated ecosystem of specialized clinicalsolution providers, centralized governance, claims administration infrastructure, and performance measurement, Stonebrook addresses high-cost and complex medical conditions across multiple therapeutic areas. Its model combines coordinated clinical interventions, member engagement, transparent financial reporting, and contractual performance guarantees to help organizations reduce medical claims expenditures while improving healthcare outcomes.

Media Contact
Tom Sherrard
HealthRate, Inc.
tom@healthrate.io | 615-496-0442

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