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> A care provider isn't multi-regional, thus when they deal with Medicare it's mostly consistent. The interface is at least similar. This is dead wrong. It's e
by chimeracoder 9y ago
> A care provider isn't multi-regional, thus when they deal with Medicare it's mostly consistent. The interface is at least similar.
This is dead wrong. It's easier to deal with a small ha regional insurers than it is to deal with Medicare on the whole. And as I said in the original post, even within a region, Medicare is very heterogeneous.
> Medicare is by volume the largest provider.... Medicare isn't simple, it's just a small piece of a very big shit sandwich.
As you said yourself, it's the largest single piece of the sandwich. It also happens to be the core of it as well. Most of the complexity in the billing process stems from how Medicare structures and organizes its own billing, not the other way around.
- rhizome 9y agoThis thread reads like you two are talking past each other, are you saying that cptskippy's point about individual lines on the provider side is either nonexistent or irrelevant?
- chimeracoder 9y ago> are you saying that cptskippy's point about individual lines on the provider side is either nonexistent or irrelevant? I'm saying that the marginal complexity introduced by private plans is actually quite small compared to the complexity that Medicare already creates. Furthermore, the complexity that private insurers introduce is both directly and indirectly linked to the way Medicare structures its billing and reimbursement policies.
- rhizome 9y agoThanks.