🟢Blue Cross of Idaho

This data contains the price transparency machine-readable files provided by Blue Cross of Idaho that have been normalized into easy-to-use tables.

Payerset Notes

Table of Contents

https://mrf.payerset.com/bc-idaho

Compliance Scorecard

Overall Rating: 4/5 - Good

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

★★★★☆

4/5

• What percentage of the MRFs are properly formatted and parseable

  • 5 Stars - 100%

  • 4 Stars - 80%...

Schema: BC_IDAHO

Data Validation

Record Type	Record Count
Negotiated Rates	67,073,732
Nonstandard Codes	319
Providers	33,655,041,535
Bundled Codes	0
Covered Services (Capitation)	0

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: ✔️ MRF Links in the TOC expire before new links are posted, making it important to download/parse the data by the 20th of each month.

• File Accessibility Percentage: ❌ 95% of the files are accessible.

Overall Assessment: Blue Cross of Idaho has some issues with file availability. & accessibility For example, some files from July cannot be found. But since they are still linked in the Table of Contents, we have to assume they are valid files, which impacts their rating . Like other "Blues", they duplicate provider data substantially, but that can be a result of interpretation of the CMS rules.