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Heard about this article on NPR this morning. Thought the concern was valid but a little on the alarmist end of things. Most of the data they need to know if y
by jesseryoung 8y ago
Heard about this article on NPR this morning. Thought the concern was valid but a little on the alarmist end of things.
Most of the data they need to know if you are going to be an expensive subscriber or a cheap one you're required to give them directly: Your age, your gender, your home address and the list of services you received at your doctor's visits that they were billed for.
Both healthcare providers and insurance providers know that the most efficient way to lower your healthcare costs is to get the patient to go to preventive care visits and keep them out of the ER. It doesn't matter how much money you give them each month, if they can prevent you from going to the doctor all together it's 100% (roughly) profit.
- lvspiff 8y agoI work alongside healthcare informatics and I got to say this is entirely the case from what I have experienced - the less you go to the ER the more the insurance profits. All of our research and data collection revolves around people getting tests and treatment PRIOR to something major happening. Regular bloods tests, proactive bp and a1c monitoring, etc lead to better heart disease and diabetes treatments so you don't go into a crisis. The collection of data allows treatment to be better for the population not to charge a higher rate to specific people. Keeping you out of the hospital is monumentally cheaper than a couple doc visits a year for a couple lab tests.