🟢Blue Cross Blue Shield Vermont

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

Payerset Notes

Table of Contents

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

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_VERMONT

Rates Records: 12,857,971,681

Provider Records: 127,200,142,157

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 Vermont 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, one of the files is inaccessible: 403 Client Error: Forbidden for url: https://mrf-download.changehealthcare.com/bcbsvt/files/2024-04-01_BCBSVT_0021_PPO_NON_QHP_EPO_in-network-rates.json.gz

This file is from April and there does appear to be an updated one that is valid for May, so we are not removing a star.