Understanding Price Transparency Data

Understand the costs of healthcare by unlocking price transparency data from health plans

In the United States, health plans are facing regulatory requirements around price transparency with a rule known as Transparency in Coverage. Health plans must post information for covered items and services. This is in the form of price transparency machine-readable file (MRF) data. These data sets are very large, often unzipping up to 150GB. Further, the JSON structure mandated by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services allows for the creation of just one JSON object, challenging even the fastest parsers.

With the Databricks Lakehouse for Healthcare and Life Sciences, data teams can:

• Ingest and read large price transparency machine-readable file (MRF) data
• Stream JSON objects and parse on the fly with Spark Structured Streaming
• Efficiently perform analysis using Databricks SQL (DBSQL)