🟢Blue Cross Blue Shield North Dakota
This data contains the price transparency machine-readable files provided by BCBS North Dakota that have been normalized into easy-to-use tables.
Last updated
This data contains the price transparency machine-readable files provided by BCBS North Dakota that have been normalized into easy-to-use tables.
Last updated
Table of Contents
https://mrf.payerset.com/bcbs-north-dakota
Overall Rating: 5/5 - Excellent
Rates Records: 13,201,746,053
Provider Records: 122,523,145,976
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 North Dakota generally 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 this has still not been resolved:
There are some issues with one of their Dental files that we weren't able to manually fix, but we did not ding them a star for it. See the full JSON error below:
An error was encountered while processing a file with ID 907002cf-7876-4b2f-95b2-da2b606393e1. The error indicates a JSON parsing issue, specifically an "unallowed token" error at a certain point in the JSON text.
Error Details
File ID: 907002cf-7876-4b2f-95b2-da2b606393e1
Error: Parse error
Issue: Unallowed token in JSON
Location: Just after a list of numbers before ], "tin": { "type": "ein", "val
Possible Cause
The token causing the error is likely due to a trailing comma after the last item in the array (right before the closing square bracket ]). JSON does not allow trailing commas in arrays or objects.
Corrected JSON Excerpt
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%...