🟡Blue Cross Blue Shield Louisiana

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

Payerset Notes

Table of Contents

https://mrf.payerset.com/bcbs-louisiana

Compliance Scorecard

Overall Rating: 5/5 - Excellent

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

★★★★★

5/5

• What percentage of the MRFs are properly formatted and parseable

  • 5 Stars - 100%

  • 4 Stars - 80%...

Schema: BCBS_LOUISIANA

Rates Records: 19,069,634,388

Provider Records: 126,252,848,301

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: ❌ several of the medical files are not accessible.

Overall Assessment: As of May 2024 BCBS Louisiana has fallen out of compliance for a number of files.

Some CSV files with no real links are present in the Table of Contents, for example: https://versanthealth.com/toc/bcbsla/2024_04_BCBSLA_in-network-rates_4.csv

There are 14 blocked files, for example: https://bcbsla.mrf.bcbs.com/2023-06_302_42A0_in-network-rates_3_of_13.json.gz?&Expires=1689688841&Signature=wz1QLt7NvamQkc75jAZ0Gdfh-v5rYmAnyrZ0qqnSse7yS2nWiFwpm7vIkPxtZnnFc-o7BHXnnnt-9SVfho-FBjr-OyzOobmt9UJDY9JNdfAJ8--81YNGjzXmtqvXOtm3-FM4s5qmXzdvOr7zi5jOYlAPf5njS6vcAOs8qFFnvfceoAyG5Fan8uixaDdyAXbF23WtEszes1XgwmgR-uwje3UouXu5ndiMIvLW7iuGNcjorOvkFVCTMfnXIR0rSJPBRbLfuoxTVojjwgjyGqUbhGHtRY6EPEq2vUuqN1I5xnSLo2WfSYU63E-7gE0i0ts1-SQwlGOsCReU9eXA__&Key-Pair-Id=K27TQMT39R1C8A

There is also a file with invalid JSON: https://bcbsla.sapphiremrfhub.com/mrfs/202405/CAA_JSON_PROD_BCBSLA_20240501.gz_b6c53d049ec0588429444a7624a414f8fe18f8df: parse error: unallowed token at this point in JSON text 61042,1891139473,1932830130, ], ""tin"": { ""type"": ""ein"", ""val "

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