The federal Transparency in Coverage rules require health plan sponsors to provide pricing disclosures via separate sets of machine-readable files (MRFs) posted on a public website. The intent of this aspect of the federal transparency rules is to make public the financial arrangements in place between health plans and providers. These MRFs are not for participant use, but rather the files are designed to be read by a computer system and are intended to be available for researchers and policy makers to have access to health plan costs nationally on an aggregate basis.
Prairie States Enterprises, Inc. is an independent third party administrator of a self-funded health plan for YMCA of the Fox Cities.
The YMCA of the Fox Cities, who is the plan sponsor, has contracts with local, regional, and national Preferred Provider Organizations (PPOs) for negotiated rates with hospitals, doctors, and clinics. Prairie States has created a portal as a service to plan sponsors and PPOs, to host the machine readable files that plans are required to publicly provide to facilitate the transparency in coverage rule as mandated by federal law. Please click the link below to go to the portal:
https://www.prairieontheweb.com/Employers/transparency.php