🟡Blue Cross Blue Shield Kansas City

This data contains the price transparency machine-readable files provided by BCBS Kansas City that have been normalized into easy-to-use tables.

Payerset Notes

Table of Contents

https://mrf.payerset.com/bcbs-kansas-city

Compliance Scorecard

Overall Rating: 4/5 - Good

Table of Contents

★★★★★

5/5

• Are the MRFs kept up to date each month?

• Is the Table of Contents link easily accessible?

• Is the Table of Contents properly formatted?

File Accessibility

★★★★☆

4/5

• Are there any barriers to downloading the files?

• Do the Table of Contents links expire before publishing new links?

Data Quality

★★★★☆

4/5

• What percentage of the MRFs are properly formatted and parseable

  • 5 Stars - 100%

  • 4 Stars - 80%...

Schema: BCBS_KANSAS_CITY

Rates Records: 18,682,004,364

Provider Records: 176,859,268,361

Additional Observations

Machine-Readable Price Transparency Files Review

• MRFs Up-to-Date: ✔️ Yes, the MRFs are kept up to date each month.

• Table of Contents Accessibility: ✔️ The Table of Contents link is easily accessible.

• Table of Contents Formatting: ✔️ Yes, the Table of Contents is properly formatted.

• File Download Barriers: ❌ No barriers to downloading the MRFs.

• File Accessibility Percentage: ❌ 99% of the files are accessible.

Overall Assessment: BCBS Kansas City has a few files that are inaccessible (403 Forbidden errors) and 1 file that is in a nonstandard format once unzipped, which cannot be parsed. Overall, reliable though.

Here is an example of a missing file:

https://bcbskc.mrf.bcbs.com/2023-07_302_42A0_in-network-rates_3_of_3.json.gz?&Expires=1692367243&Signature=NlILkF19ZhYnniZm6RqADTrx9u81EEBg3KG2FGYkmf0ZHo57t2exGAqdM29PKEXv4mhk7NzRVINj-pj~RiKvtpCHho~XJigU0H3ypqnNNsdN4SFCLD4xU-dGeXT~yFpEloR42ehPBCSLBbGl4JFfmCtO593PTtQ17lMlNhiq7WBLkgpIjG0VS1YPCk2Q0CMQjvjoKXs31yYQkuELaPJ~WFpPCYw6zHovwSlkUJkIVpCHPGXFvy0iuvhA5epdgQXqstF7hisCS1YVGjBjeZCKqdQzQTWv2OJo7E8xRMXQAD9UNvCyrvooudpg51CRpiM3PODHf-qmpOXUNarO79K6Xg__&Key-Pair-Id=K27TQMT39R1C8A