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Midlands Choice

Midlands Choice is a health insurer. They report 7 insurance plans covering 56K providers across 24K billing codes.

Source: public Transparency in Coverage filesRefreshed monthly, latest September 202612 monthly releases tracked

Monthly release

7

Plans

56K

Providers (NPIs)

XX% vs prior month

7.5K

Tax IDs

XX% vs prior month

24K

Billing codes

XX% vs prior month

66M

Rate rows

XX% vs prior month

September 2026 release

What's in Midlands Choice's data

A profile of the machine-readable files Midlands Choice publishes, after PayerPrice parses and normalizes them.

Billing code types

Distinct codes and rate rows by code system

CodesRows
  • CPT13K40M61%
  • HCPCS9.9K23M35%
  • CDT9402.5M3.9%
  • MS-DRG2807.5K<0.1%
  • RC51220<0.1%

Billing class

Professional vs. institutional rate rows

  • Both55M83%
  • Professional11M17%
  • Institutional63K<0.1%

Negotiation arrangement

How each rate is expressed

  • Negotiated37M56%
  • Percentage29M44%

Plan identifiers

HIOS IDs mark individual and small-group plans; EINs mark employer plans

  • EIN7100%

Providers by type

Distinct NPIs by entity type

  • Individual (Type 1)54K96%
  • Organization (Type 2)2.5K4.4%

Tax IDs by type

How provider groups are identified

  • EIN7.2K96%
  • NPI (Individual)2703.6%

Top states

States with the most providers in network

  • Iowa19K
  • Nebraska14K
  • Colorado7K
  • South Dakota5.6K
  • Wisconsin1.6K
  • Illinois1.4K

Top specialties

Provider taxonomies with the most NPIs

  • Family Nurse Practitioner3.6K
  • Family Medicine Physician3.3K
  • Physician Assistant3.3K
  • Mental Health Counselor3.1K
  • Physical Therapist3K
  • Nurse Practitioner2.3K

These are the files. Want the rates inside them?

Look up Midlands Choice's negotiated rates by provider, TIN, billing code and plan.

Month-over-month history

Track how network size and rate volume change with each monthly release.

MonthPlansNPIsTax IDsBilling codesRate rows
September 2026756K7.5K24K66M
August 2026738K3.5K25K120M
July 2026739K4.1K25K190M
June 2026————
May 2026————

Data quality scorecard

4/6Acceptable

This payer scores 4/6 on data quality (Acceptable). Areas that don't meet the threshold: hios plan and low derived/percentage rates.

Evaluated on the September 2026 release.

  • Professional & Institutional Rates

    Data includes both professional and institutional billing class rates

  • Valid Tax IDs

    More than 80% of Tax IDs are EIN or NPI (Organization) type

  • HIOS Plan

    Data does not include any HIOS-identified plans

  • Low Derived/Percentage Rates

    10% or more of negotiation entries are derived or percentage type

  • Standard Code Coverage

    Sufficient CPT and HCPCS code coverage with low proportion of LOCAL entries

  • Common Taxonomies

    NPIs in the dataset cover at least 50 distinct provider taxonomies

How the score works

Each monthly release is checked against six criteria. 5–6 passing criteria rate Good, 3–4 rate Acceptable, and 0–2 rate Poor.

Behavioral, RX, and other specialty networks may not pass all criteria but can still contain complete and usable data.

Access the data

Midlands Choice's negotiated rates, in the tools your team already uses

PayerPrice turns raw transparency files into one clean, normalized dataset across 180+ payers, refreshed every month. Pick how you want to work with it.

UI

Web app

Search Midlands Choice's rates by code, provider or market and export the results. No setup required.

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SQL

Snowflake & Databricks

Query the full normalized dataset with SQL or PySpark, shared directly into your warehouse.

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AI

MCP server

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Frequently asked questions

About Midlands Choice's price transparency data.

What price transparency data does Midlands Choice publish?

Midlands Choice's September 2026 Transparency in Coverage files list 7 plans, 56K providers (NPIs), 7.5K tax IDs and 24K billing codes, for 66M negotiated rate rows in total.

Which states does Midlands Choice's network cover?

Midlands Choice's files include providers in 51 states. The states with the most in-network providers are Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, South Dakota, Wisconsin.

How often is Midlands Choice's data updated?

Payers must post updated machine-readable files every month. PayerPrice processes Midlands Choice's files monthly; the latest processed release is September 2026, and 12 monthly releases are available.

What is the Transparency in Coverage rule?

Since July 2022, the federal Transparency in Coverage rule has required most group health plans and health insurers to publish machine-readable files of their in-network negotiated rates and out-of-network allowed amounts, updated monthly. These files are the source for the data on this page.

How can I access Midlands Choice's negotiated rates?

Start a free PayerPrice trial to search Midlands Choice's rates in the web app, or book a demo to get the full dataset through the REST API, SQL in Snowflake or Databricks, or AI assistants through the PayerPrice MCP server.