Machine Readable Files

Health Plan Price Transparency: Links to Machine Readable Files

Federal law requires that certain group health plans and health insurance issuers make certain pricing information publicly available via “machine-readable files” (MRFs). The information relates to in-network provider negotiated rates and historical out-of-network allowed amounts and billed charges.

The information in the MRFs is published in a federally-prescribed layout and format. The information included in the MRFs is not primarily aimed at individual enrollees but rather at other health care stakeholders, such as researchers, regulators, lawmakers, and patient and consumer advocates. As a result, the MRFs may not be reader-friendly for individual health plan participants.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska publishes machine-readable files on behalf of the Consolidated Concrete Health Care Plan.  View the machine-readable files here: NebraskaBlue.com/MRFs

DISCLAIMER: Nothing in the above, including the MRFs, shall be construed as part of the official legal plan documents of any Consolidated Concrete benefit plan.  Benefits under such plans will be administered in accordance with the terms of the applicable legal plan documents (as interpreted by the plan administrator). As always, Consolidated Concrete reserves the right and discretion to interpret the terms of its benefit plans and to amend or terminate its benefit plans at any time in accordance with applicable law.