How do I find my CareFirst BCBS (PPO) contracted rate?

Enter your NPI. RateBench reads CareFirst BCBS (PPO)'s federally required Transparency in Coverage file and returns the negotiated rates it lists for your practice for the common codes of your specialty, with the network and source file. With a plan, you can look up any code.

Is the CareFirst BCBS (PPO) rate a benchmark or an estimate?

Neither. It is the figure CareFirst BCBS (PPO) published for your NPI. Where the file marks a rate "derived" rather than negotiated, we flag it as an estimate; we never invent a benchmark.

Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia

CareFirst BCBS (PPO) fee schedule 2026, by CPT code.

CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield (Maryland / DC / N. Virginia) — PPO publishes the rate it negotiated with each practice it contracts with, by NPI. Enter yours and we read CareFirst BCBS (PPO)’s files for your rates.

Answers in seconds, for any code you bill.

What you’ll get

Code	Visit	Your CareFirst BCBS (PPO) rate	Source file
Filled in from CareFirst BCBS (PPO)’s own file when you enter your NPI.

CareFirst BCBS (PPO) publishes 3 in-network rate files. We read them for the rate listed for your practice, code by code.

Get your own rates for your NPI

Rate lookupSix codes your specialty bills most66 payers liveSource — the payer’s own machine-readable file

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Inside CareFirst BCBS (PPO)’s files

What CareFirst BCBS (PPO) publishes.

In-network files3

Published by CareFirst BCBS (PPO) under the federal Transparency in Coverage rule.

Last checkedSep 21, 2026

What you get

The number, and everything behind it.

Negotiated rate

The exact dollar CareFirst BCBS (PPO) negotiated for a CPT code and your NPI — the genuinely negotiated figure, chosen by a fixed rule, not the “derived” line beside it.

Network & setting

Which CareFirst BCBS (PPO) network the rate sits in (an HMO and a PPO product can pay differently), and that it’s the in-office professional rate.

Provenance

The source file and its “as of” month, linked — so the number survives being questioned by a contracting manager.

Across your payers

On a paid plan, CareFirst BCBS (PPO) becomes one column of a sheet next to every other payer you take, with underpayment checks and change alerts.

After the rate

Is CareFirst BCBS (PPO) paying you what it published?

Underpayment check

Upload your allowed amounts by code and see which ones CareFirst BCBS (PPO) allowed below the rate it published for you, the claims affected and the dollar gap. Totals only, no patient data. →

Fee schedule

CareFirst BCBS (PPO) next to every other payer you take, code by code, in one sheet, with the source behind every number and an alert when a rate changes. →

Also in Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia

The other payers we read here.

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Your states

All the payers we read in Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia.

District of Columbia Maryland Virginia

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