Price Transparency Data Sample - 800K+ Negotiated Rates

Explore 800,000+ negotiated rates from five major Minnesota payers, cleaned and enriched for immediate analysis.

Payers included:

• UnitedHealthcare Midwest
• Medica
• Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota
• HealthPartners
• Allina Health Aetna

What's in This Dataset

This sample contains a random slice of in-network negotiated rates filtered to Minnesota providers. Unlike raw MRF files that require weeks of processing and terabytes of storage, this data is ready to analyze in seconds.

Data quality features:

• NPI-filtered to Minnesota providers only
• Zombie rates removed for individual NPIs (rates that appear in MRF files but are never actually paid)
• Enriched with NPI details including provider name, specialty, and address
• Clean EIN names mapped to recognizable organization names
• CMS non-facility rates included for instant Medicare benchmarking

Why This Data Matters

Price transparency regulations require payers to publish their negotiated rates, but the raw files are nearly impossible to use. A single payer's MRF can exceed 1 terabyte. The data comes in deeply nested JSON formats. Provider identifiers require extensive crosswalking. And the files contain millions of "zombie rates" that inflate the data without providing actionable intelligence.

This sample demonstrates what becomes possible when price transparency data is properly processed: clean, queryable rate intelligence that providers, payers, and employers can actually use for contract negotiations, network analysis, and market benchmarking.

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