Of 60 answers

The most named companies in the study, and S&P 500 financials, with how many of their 60 AI answers named them.

Back to the study
AI visibility statementFinance AI Visibility Study 2026Issued October 14, 2026
Account holder
Statement period
October 9 and 10, 2026
when the AI assistants were asked
Account no.
482 of 2,219
its rank by overall score
Place in its category
5th of 11 health insurers
Closing balance

Named in

6of 60 answers

by 4 of 4 assistants

Statement note

What this means for Zelis

AI assistants name this health insurer in 10% of answers, which is more often than the typical company in its sector at 1.7%. Its overall score is 37 out of 100, which ranks 482nd of 2,219 companies and 18th among 97 in its sector. The website passes 4 out of 14 technical checks for AI tool readiness.

We asked 15 unbranded questions about its market, so no question mentioned Zelis by name. AI assistants named it in 6 of the 60 answers. Counting only how often it is named, it ranks 12th of 97 in its sector. The typical insurer is named in 1.7% of answers.

Overall score
37Overall score
  • Visibility13
  • Citations2
  • Sentiment90
  • Site quality73
  • AI readiness29
Summary of account
Named by AI in
10.0%
6 of 60 answers
Share of mentions
20.7%
of the mentions of it and its 5 peers
AI readiness
4/14
technical checks passed. Typical for its sector: 3
Rank in its sector
18 of 97
by overall score, where the typical insurer scores 28

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Line itemsSection 01

Every question, and where the company came up

Zelis came up on 3 of 15 questions. Open any window to read that answer.

  1. 01What can cause errors in automated healthcare payment processing, and how can organizations resolve them?0/4
  2. 02How are healthcare payments platforms usually priced for payers and providers in the US?0/4
  3. 03What are alternatives to digital healthcare payments platforms for managing claims and reimbursements?0/4
  4. 04Best healthcare payments platforms for dealing with complex multi-payer environments in the United States3/4
  5. 05What options exist for smaller practices that need a simplified healthcare payment solution?0/4
  6. 06What are typical use cases for healthcare payments technology within private practices and large health systems?0/4
  7. 07How does an integrated healthcare payments platform compare to using separate solutions for claims and provider payments?0/4
  8. 08Are there any hidden fees to watch for when signing up for a healthcare payments platform?0/4
  9. 09Are healthcare payments platforms effective at reducing administrative costs for payers?0/4
  10. 10Electronic healthcare payments platforms vs. traditional paper-based payment processing — what are the main differences?0/4
  11. 11Which healthcare payments platforms are known for streamlining financial transactions for hospitals and clinics?2/4
  12. 12Is investing in a healthcare payments platform worth it for a mid-sized provider group?0/4
  13. 13How can healthcare payments platforms help with out-of-network claims processing?1/4
  14. 14Why might payments between a healthcare payer and provider be delayed, even with a payments platform in place?0/4
  15. 15What are the most important features to look for in a healthcare payments platform for both payers and providers?0/4
Total namedOpenAI: 2/15Claude: 1/15Perplexity: 2/15Gemini: 1/15All assistants: 6/60
named the companyanswered without naming itdid not answer

Columns, left to right: OpenAI, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini. Across the study, on 50% of the questions where a company is named, only one AI assistant names it.

Transaction detailSection 02

What Perplexity actually said

An answer that names the company

Perplexitynamed the company

“Best healthcare payments platforms for dealing with complex multi-payer environments in the United States”

For complex U.S. multi-payer environments, the strongest shortlist is Waystar, Availity, Zelis, Experian Health, and TriZetto—with Paymentus or Flywire added when the primary need is patient payment collection rather than payer administration.

Platform · Best fit · Why it stands out

Waystar · Large providers, hospitals, and health systems · Broad revenue-cycle coverage: eligibility, claims, prior authorization, claim-status workflows, denials, payments, and remittance.

Availity · Multi-site organizations needing payer connectivity · A single connect …

The AI’s answer as we received it, shortened and not checked for accuracy.

PayeesSection 03

Where the mentions went

The companies these answers named, and how the mentions were split between this company and its peers.

Also named

CompanyTimes named
  1. 01
    Waystar
    9
  2. 02
    Availity
    4
  3. 03
    Change Healthcare
    4
  4. 04
    Cedar
    2

Share of mentions

CompanyShare
  1. Waystar
    34.5%
  2. Zelis
    20.7%
  3. Availity
    17.2%
  4. Change Healthcare
    13.8%
  5. Cedar
    13.8%
  6. Payspan
    0.0%
ReferrersSection 04

Websites the AI used as sources

How many times each website was listed as a source in these answers

  1. 01
    finix.com
    12
  2. 02
    getweave.com
    9
  3. 03
    helpware.com
    8
  4. 04
    paystand.com
    7
  5. 05
    zelis.com (its own website)
    6
  6. 06
    worldmetrics.org
    6
  7. 07
    paymentus.com
    6
  8. 08
    sourceforge.net
    6
  9. 09
    curogram.com
    5
  10. 10
    helcim.com
    4

Zelis is in the study as a health insurer.

By assistantSection 05

Which AI assistants named the company

Answers naming it, out of answers received

OpenAI
2/15
Perplexity
2/15
Claude
1/15
Gemini
1/15
Market comparisonSection 06

How Zelis compares with all 2,219 companies

Every tower is a company in the study, taller for a higher overall score and lit where AI assistants named it. Its own group stays lit. Hover a tower to see it, and click to open it.

What makes up the score

Each part is scored out of 100.

Visibility
13

How often AI assistants name the company, and how that compares with its peers

Citations
2

How often AI uses the company's own website as a source

Sentiment
90

How positively AI describes the company

Site quality
73

How well built the website's own pages are

AI readiness
29

How easily AI tools can read and use the website

Visibility is calculated from the answers on this page. How the score is built.

Against its sectorSection 07

Compared with insurers

97 companies in this sector. The gold tick on each bar is the typical company.

Overall score
37
Ranks 18 of 97. Typical company: 28
Named in answers
10.0%
Ranks 12 of 97. Typical company: 1.7%
AI readiness
29
Ranks 22 of 97. Typical company: 29
Against its categorySection 08

Compared with health insurers

11 companies in this category. The gold tick on each bar is the typical company.

Overall score
37
Ranks 4 of 11. Typical company: 37
Named in answers
10.0%
Ranks 3 of 11. Typical company: 5.0%
AI readiness
29
Ranks 1 of 11. Typical company: 29
AI agentsSection 09

Ready for AI agents

What this website publishes for an AI agent to read, use and pay through, on a scale of six levels.

  1. 0
  2. 1
  3. 2
  4. 3
  5. 4
  6. 5

Level 1: Basic web presence. Two of robots.txt, a sitemap and Link headers are in place.

To reach level 2:
  • Content Signals
Can an AI agent check out here?

Not by itself. Zelis publishes none of the agent payment protocols we look for. An agent would have to click through the website like a person.

Agent payment protocols
  • x402Not present
  • MPPNot present
  • AP2Not present
  • ACPNot present
  • UCPNot present
Interfaces for AI agents
  • MCP Server CardNot present
  • A2A Agent CardNot present
  • Agent SkillsNot present
  • API CatalogNot present
  • llms.txtNot present
  • WebMCPCould not check
Show every check, for your technical team
Discoverability
77 of 100
  • robots.txtPassed

    A valid robots.txt with crawl rules at the site root.

    study: 86.1%
  • SitemapPassed

    An XML sitemap listing the pages, ideally referenced from robots.txt.

    study: 87.9%
  • Link headersNot met

    Send Link headers such as rel="api-catalog" or rel="describedby" on the homepage.

    study: 1.5%
  • DNS for AI DiscoveryNot present

    Advertise agent endpoints with SVCB records under _agents.

    study: 4.3%
Content accessibility
0 of 100
  • Markdown negotiationNot met

    Return a markdown version when asked with Accept: text/markdown, for example at the CDN.

    study: 6.2%
  • llms.txtNot met

    Publish an llms.txt with a short summary and the key links.

    study: 31.0%
Bot access control
32 of 100
  • AI bot rulesPartly met

    Add explicit robots.txt groups for the main AI crawlers.

    study: 92.7%
  • Content SignalsNot met

    Add a Content-Signal line for search, ai-input and ai-train to robots.txt.

    study: 2.3%
  • Web Bot AuthNot present

    Only relevant if you run your own agents or crawlers: publish a signing key directory.

    study: 0.3%
APIs, auth and MCP
0 of 100
  • API CatalogNot met

    List public APIs in a linkset at /.well-known/api-catalog.

    study: 1.3%
  • OAuth discoveryNot met

    Publish OpenID Connect or OAuth server metadata under /.well-known.

    study: 6.3%
  • OAuth Protected ResourceNot met

    Serve protected resource metadata at /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource.

    study: 5.3%
  • auth.mdNot met

    Publish an auth.md describing how agents sign in.

    study: 0.2%
  • MCP Server CardNot met

    Offer an MCP server and publish its server card under /.well-known.

    study: 0.8%
  • A2A Agent CardNot met

    Publish an agent card at /.well-known/agent-card.json.

    study: 0.2%
  • Agent SkillsNot met

    Publish a skills index with the main tasks agents can do.

    study: 1.0%
  • WebMCPCould not check

    Register key actions such as search or cart as WebMCP tools.

    study: 0.0%
  • ARD manifestNot met

    Publish an ai-catalog.json listing every agent interface.

    study: 0.2%

Score 25 of 100 · 97% of checks could run · checked on October 9, 2026 · www.zelis.com · 2,200 companies scanned

See how every company did, and how this was measured.

AI readinessSection 10

The checks behind the AI readiness score

4 of 14 passed. This list is for your technical team. The percentage is how many companies in the study pass each check.

These 14 checks ran during the audit and are what the AI readiness part of the overall score counts. The scan above ran later and is stricter on Link headers and Markdown, so a check can pass here and not there.

Show the 14 checks

Discoverability

  • Passedrobots.txt publishedstudy: 85.1%
  • PassedXML sitemapstudy: 79.4%
  • PassedHTTP Link headers (RFC 8288)study: 42.5%

Content Accessibility

  • Not metMarkdown content negotiationstudy: 7.4%
  • Not metllms.txt publishedstudy: 28.1%
  • PassedToken budget (page weight)study: 97.3%

Bot Access Control

  • Not metExplicit AI bot rulesstudy: 11.5%

API / Auth / MCP

  • Not metAPI Catalog (.well-known/api-catalog)study: 1.1%
  • Not metOAuth Authorization Server discoverystudy: 5.2%
  • Not metOAuth Protected Resource discoverystudy: 4.6%
  • Not metMCP Server Cardstudy: 0.2%
  • Not metA2A Agent Cardstudy: 0.0%
  • Not metWebMCP toolsstudy: 0.3%
  • Not metAgent Skills declaredstudy: 0.1%
AI crawlersSection 11

What AI crawlers may read (robots.txt)

This website sets no rules for any AI crawler by name, like 86% of the websites whose rules we could read. Every AI crawler follows its general rules.

Training AI

  • GPTBotallowed
  • ClaudeBotallowed
  • Anthropic-AIallowed
  • Google-Extendedallowed
  • Applebot-Extendedallowed
  • Meta-ExternalAgentallowed
  • FacebookBotallowed
  • Bytespiderallowed
  • CCBotallowed
  • Diffbotallowed
  • Omgilibotallowed

AI search

  • OAI-SearchBotallowed
  • Claude-SearchBotallowed
  • PerplexityBotallowed
  • Applebotallowed
  • Amazonbotallowed
  • YouBotallowed

Answering questions

  • ChatGPT-Userallowed
  • Claude-Userallowed
  • Perplexity-Userallowed
  • DuckAssistBotallowed
  • MistralAI-Userallowed

Read from the website’s own rules file (robots.txt). An asterisk marks a crawler the file names. The rest follow its general rules. “Partly” means only some pages are blocked.

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