🟢Blue Cross Blue Shield Triple-S

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

Payerset Notes

Table of Contents

https://mrf.payerset.com/bcbs-triple-s

Compliance Scorecard

Overall Rating: 4/5 - Good

Table of Contents

★★★☆☆

3/5

• 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_TRIPLE_S

Rates Records: 14,281,215,221

Provider Records: 139,800,409,161

Additional Observations

Machine-Readable Price Transparency Files Review

• MRFs Up-to-Date: ❌ No, the MRFs are sometimes delayed in being updated.

• 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 Triple-S does a good job of posting these files with consistency and quality. There are, however, delays occasionally in making the data accessible. They duplicate provider data substantially, but that can be a result of interpretation of the CMS rules.