What Quantros does

Quantros is a U.S.-based healthcare quality measurement and clinical performance analytics company founded in 1996 and headquartered in Milpitas, California. Its core product, Outcomes Analytics by Quantros®, analyzes inpatient and outpatient data drawn from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Standard Analytics Files (SAF) and internal commercial claims datasets, covering 630M+ individual discharges across all 50 states and spanning 40 inpatient and 24 outpatient clinical categories. The platform applies a proprietary risk-adjusted methodology that accounts for severity (length of stay) and risk factors (mortality, complications, readmissions, patient safety), producing multi-dimensional composite scores and ratings that enable apples-to-apples comparisons of hospital, health system, and physician performance independent of patient population complexity.

Quantros generates revenue primarily through subscription-based licensing of its Outcomes Analytics software. Distribution is channel-driven rather than direct, with Valenz Health serving as the core reseller and integrator of Quantros data into a broader healthcare quality, payment integrity, member experience, and plan performance platform. The company's primary customer segment is healthcare providers (hospitals, health systems, and physician practices), though channel-driven reach also extends to payers, employers, Taft-Hartley funds, brokers, consultants, and third-party administrators via Valenz. CareChex® Awards by Quantros is an adjacent sub-brand that recognizes top-performing hospitals and reinforces the company's positioning as a healthcare quality authority.

The company has historically been backed by private equity (Francisco Partners, Series 4, 2010) and strategic investors (Ascension Ventures, 2013), and expanded capabilities through the 2016 acquisition of Comparion Medical Analytics. Current leadership includes CEO and President Trey Cook and Chief Analytics Officer Thane Forthman. Headcount is reported at 51-100 employees, consistent with a focused niche analytics business operating through partner channels rather than a large direct enterprise sales organization.

Name

Quantros

Website

https://quantros.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1996

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Quantros provides cloud-based healthcare quality measurement and clinical performance analytics using CMS and commercial claims data, delivering risk-adjusted hospital and physician benchmarking distributed primarily through channel partner Valenz Health.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Healthcare Quality Analytics

SIC

Services-Misc Health & Allied Services, Nec (8090)

akta.pro primary industry

Quality Measurement, Reporting & Benchmarking (HEDIS/Stars/CQM) (HLACAHAC)

akta.pro secondary industry

Healthcare Data Quality, Profiling & Observability (HLACAIAE)

Keywords

• Healthcare quality analytics
• Clinical performance measurement
• Hospital quality benchmarking
• Risk-adjusted outcomes
• Healthcare data analytics

Headquarters

HQ city

Milpitas

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Outcomes Analytics Software Subscription: Quantros generates revenue through licensing its Outcomes Analytics software platform that provides healthcare quality measurement and clinical performance analytics to healthcare organizations. The software is distributed via channel partners like Valenz Health.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Quantros provides a cloud-based healthcare quality and safety analytics platform that measures and benchmarks clinical performance across hospitals, health systems, and physicians. Its Outcomes Analytics software leverages Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Standard Analytics Files and proprietary commercial claims data covering 630M+ individual discharges to deliver risk-adjusted, objective quality comparisons across 40 inpatient and 24 outpatient clinical categories in the United States.

Product overview

Quantros provides a healthcare quality measurement platform offered through Valenz Health's integrated solutions suite. The core product, Outcomes Analytics by Quantros®, delivers clinical performance analytics using CMS Standard Analytics Files and internal commercial claims data to generate risk-adjusted quality scores and ratings across 40 inpatient and 24 outpatient clinical categories. The CareChex® Awards module complements the analytics platform by providing recognition for top-performing hospitals. These products work together within the Valenz Health ecosystem to enable healthcare organizations to evaluate care quality, benchmark performance against peers, and showcase excellence.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• CareChex Awards by Quantros: Industry awards program that highlights top-performing hospitals to help patients make informed decisions about healthcare quality.

Products and services

• Outcomes Analytics by Quantros® Healthcare quality measurement and clinical performance analytics platform that analyzes inpatient and outpatient data from over 630 million discharges to provide unbiased, risk-adjusted comparisons of hospital, system, and physician performance for healthcare providers, payers, employers, and third-party administrators.
• CareChex® Awards by Quantros Industry awards program that identifies and showcases top-performing hospitals using Quantros' quality metrics, enabling healthcare organizations to highlight their commitment to high-quality care and helping patients and payers make informed decisions about healthcare providers.

Quantifiable outcome

• Covers 630M+ individual discharges across 50 states
• +1 more outcomes

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Valenz HealthcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorValenz Health serves as the primary channel partner distributing Quantros Outcomes Analytics to healthcare organizations. Quantros provides its quality measurement and analytics capabilities, while Valenz integrates these into its broader platform offering member experience, payment integrity, provider quality, and plan performance solutions. The partnership enables Valenz to offer objective, data-driven quality benchmarking alongside its other healthcare optimization services.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Healthgrades: Healthgrades is a consumer- and enterprise-facing hospital quality and physician rating platform that, like Quantros, ranks providers using clinical outcomes data and sells quality/performance insights to providers, payers, and employers.
• The Leapfrog Group: Leapfrog is a non-profit that publishes hospital safety and quality ratings used by employers and consumers; it competes directly with Quantros/CareChex in the provider quality rating space, albeit with a free public-facing model.

Broad incumbents

• Premier Inc. Premier is a large healthcare improvement company combining supply chain, performance services, and clinical analytics; its benchmarking and quality analytics offerings overlap directly with Quantros' Outcomes Analytics use cases for hospital systems.
• Vizient: Vizient is a healthcare performance improvement company offering clinical analytics, benchmarking, and supply chain insights to hospitals and health systems — directly competing with Quantros in hospital/physician quality benchmarking at enterprise scale.
• Press Ganey: Press Ganey is a large, established healthcare performance and patient experience analytics platform serving hospitals and health systems — overlapping with Quantros on hospital quality measurement but with a much broader PX, workforce, and safety portfolio.
• Merative (formerly IBM Watson Health): Merative markets healthcare analytics products (e.g., MarketScan, clinical decision support) that include hospital and provider performance benchmarking, putting it in direct competition with Quantros for enterprise payer and provider analytics contracts.
• NRC Health: NRC Health provides healthcare experience, consumer, and quality analytics to providers and payers — a broader portfolio than Quantros but directly comparable in the hospital/physician performance benchmarking use case.

Emerging players

• Definitive Healthcare: Definitive Healthcare is a commercial intelligence and analytics platform for healthcare companies; while broader than Quantros, it increasingly overlaps in hospital performance benchmarking and provider quality analytics for life sciences and payer buyers.
• Hospital IQ: Hospital IQ is an AI-driven hospital operations and performance platform focused on real-time analytics for health systems — overlapping with Quantros on hospital performance measurement but with a modern, AI-native product approach.
• Arcadia (CareJourney): Arcadia, with its CareJourney division, provides value-based care analytics, risk stratification, and provider performance insights — comparable to Quantros in risk-adjusted quality measurement and increasingly competitive in payer/employer analytics.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/quantros
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• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/quantros

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors2 records

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M&A1 record

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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