🟢Blue Cross Blue Shield Nebraska

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

Payerset Notes

Table of Contents

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

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

★★★★★

5/5

• 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_NEBRASKA

Rates Records: 62,511,569

Provider Records: 472,165

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: ✔️ 100% of the files are accessible.

Overall Assessment: BCBS Nebraska does a great job of posting these files each month. They duplicate provider data substantially, but that can be a result of interpretation of the CMS rules.

As of May 2024, 1 file is corrupt, but we are unsure whether this file is consequential - we will update this documentation when we dig into it:

https://bcbsne.mrf.bcbs.com/2024-05_380_56B0_in-network-rates_1_of_1.json.gz?&Expires=1718978442&Signature=bUQrVTBscQPQARFLSBUYBBCUuG0HAV5P84~VaxH1shpp9XHgLVkXbC0UMgyzRpdG~8Gxg4Jj81ILWYjH4prg7dDE6G2p64P2s4E18fvAJNZsZeytk8i-az5PBWVsvnr8tcnjoYUVxdm1Wf4PzE2GNhvRh7A5tW~GSvmeK3qhHHYy810ESUdOPiGz3Ebh-jVo2Isbmf3y6DgpXgFFvkYYa7ZbvxMZXpgn5qWEp2DDkbypJEbWxsxa2hJIPqAqhMc6jD4PM2RJ5QpNs2oVWVes7U4TFLJVxFwl4KLWp2S2P4gh9BJPgJbO3RAVcYly1lPfS7JurfBti4-zy7kKRxtrIA__&Key-Pair-Id=K27TQMT39R1C8A