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Free accounts now have a Medicare code workspace

A public code page answers one question well: what does this CPT or HCPCS code pay here, in this setting, for this release?

That works for a single lookup. It is clumsy for repeated work. Billing teams often return to the same codes, compare the same localities, and flip between office and facility settings.

Free accounts now have a workspace for that pattern: bookmarked codes, tracked localities, a price grid, saved calculations, and recent price history.

What a bookmark does

The bookmark button lives on public code pages. If you are signed in, it adds the code to your team's bookmarks. If you are not signed in, the click carries through signup and finishes after your free account is created.

The bookmark stores the code, not a claim or a full calculation. The payment context belongs to the grid, where you choose the setting and localities. That keeps the same code reusable across office, facility, and locality comparisons.

Free teams can keep up to 10 bookmarked codes.

The grid prices your codes against your localities

The Bookmarks page has three collections: codes, tracked localities, and saved calculations. The Codes tab combines the first two. Add the codes you check often, add up to 10 Medicare payment localities by ZIP or picker, and Localis prices the cross-product.

At the free cap, that is a 100-cell grid: 10 codes by 10 localities. Each amount uses the same rate engine and sourcing rules as the public code page. The grid can show allowed amount, Medicare share, sequestration, beneficiary responsibility, or total expected provider payment.

The setting toggle applies to the whole grid, so every cell answers the same office-or-facility question.

Carrier-priced cells stay labeled as contractor-published when the amount comes from a MAC schedule rather than the national RVU formula.

Saved calculations are for the cells you will reuse

Some grid cells are just comparisons. Others become workpapers: a code, locality, setting, release, and expected payment you want to return to later.

Those cells can be saved as calculations from the grid. Saved calculations keep the calculator inputs and link back to the full calculation page, including the release, locality, payment split, and citations.

Free teams can keep up to 10 saved calculations.

One-year history is built into the free workspace

Each priced grid cell can open a price-history graph. On a free account, that graph covers the current release and the four quarterly releases before it, roughly one year of Medicare PFS movement.

That answers the common recent-history question: did this code move, and by how much in the locality I bill?

The deeper archive is the Research boundary. Public historical pages remain readable one page at a time, but pivoting a saved calculation across every release we hold belongs to the paid research workflow. Research is published on the pricing page so you can see where the product is going; it is not buyable yet.

What stays free

Current rate lookups, code pages, formulas, and source citations remain free. The free account adds memory: your codes, your localities, saved calculations, and a recent history window.

Paid plans are for depth and workflow: broader historical exploration, exports, reusable research artifacts, and higher-scale operational work.

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