🟢Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield Western New York

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

Payerset Notes

Table of Contents

https://mrf.payerset.com/highmark-w-new-york

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: HIGHMARK_NE_NEW_YORK

Rates Records: 147,941

Provider Records: 501,593

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: Highmark West New York does a great job of posting these files each month with accurate rates. They duplicate provider data substantially, but that can be a result of interpretation of the CMS rules.