🟡Medcost

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

Payerset Notes

Table of Contents

https://mrf.payerset.com/medcost

Compliance Scorecard

Overall Rating: 3/5 - Needs Improvement

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

★★☆☆☆

2/5

• What percentage of the MRFs are properly formatted and parseable

  • 5 Stars - 100%

  • 4 Stars - 80%...

Schema: MEDCOST

Data Validation

Record Type	Record Count
Providers	45,170,068,399
Rates	18,050,690,876
Bundled Codes	2,083,672
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: ✔️ No barriers to downloading the MRFs.

• File Accessibility Percentage: ✔️ 99% of the files are accessible.

As of September 2024, Medcost is now updating their files. Previously, they blamed a lack of publishing on the Change issues.

As of November 2024, most of the files that medcost is publishing have JSON issues, specifically malformed JSON, making them unparseable. As a result, their rating has been significantly downgraded.

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