# Blue Cross Blue Shield Kansas City

### Payerset Notes

**Table of Contents**

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

### Compliance Scorecard

Overall Rating: <mark style="color:green;">**4/5**</mark>**&#x20;- Good**

<table data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th></th><th></th><th></th><th></th><th data-hidden data-card-cover data-type="files"></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>Table of Contents</strong></td><td><strong>★★★★★</strong></td><td><mark style="color:green;"><strong>5/5</strong></mark></td><td><ul><li>Are the MRFs kept up to date each month? </li><li>Is the Table of Contents link easily accessible?</li><li>Is the Table of Contents properly formatted?</li></ul></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><strong>File Accessibility</strong></td><td><strong>★★★★☆</strong></td><td><mark style="color:green;"><strong>4/5</strong></mark></td><td><ul><li>Are there any barriers to downloading the files?</li><li>Do the Table of Contents links expire before publishing new links?</li></ul></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Data Quality</strong></td><td><strong>★★★★☆</strong></td><td><mark style="color:green;"><strong>4/5</strong></mark></td><td><ul><li><p>What percentage of the MRFs are properly formatted and parseable</p><ul><li>5 Stars - 100%</li><li>4 Stars - 80%...</li></ul></li></ul></td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>

### Schema: BCBS\_KANSAS\_CITY

**Rates Records**: 197,169,497

**Provider Records**: 4,605,811,594

### 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>