Spines
Spines data components contain crosswalks that can be used to standardize and identify canonical representations of providers, networks, payers, and services.
- payer
- provider
- network
- services
- geography
Spines vs Transformations:
- spines are used to convert rate object dimensions and are used as adapters between raw data and a "rate object"
- transformations are used to convert and standardize rate values (e.g. percentage or per dem to dollar)