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transparency_file

One machine readable transparency in coverage file, as published by a payer under the CMS Transparency in Coverage rule.

Primary Key:Indexes:
ColumnData TypeNullableIndexedDescription
transparency_file_idbigintNoYesSnowflake ID of the file
display_nametextNoYesName the payer lists the file under, which is also the name it is stored on disk as
source_urltextNoNoURL the file was downloaded from. Payer URLs are often signed and expire, so this is a record of where it came from rather than a way to fetch it again.
categorytransparency_category_typeNoNoWhich listing the payer published the file under
byte_sizebigintNoNoCompressed size of the downloaded file in bytes
reporting_entity_nametextNoNoEntity that published the file, from the file's own header
reporting_entity_typetextNoNoHow the reporting entity describes itself, for example 'Health Insurance Network'
last_updated_ondateNoYesDate the payer states the file's contents were last updated
versiontextNoNoCMS schema version the file declares, for example 2.0.0
loaded_attimestamp with time zoneNoNoWhen the load of this file committed. Each file loads in a single transaction, so a row existing means every child row for it is present.