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> The competing administrative bureaucracies in the health care administration, and health insurance, industries. Our company once was in the same office build
by ansible 8y ago
> The competing administrative bureaucracies in the health care administration, and health insurance, industries.
Our company once was in the same office building as another company that specialized in billing for health care.
They would look at the services provided by a doctor's office, and figure out ways to code the procedures performed so that it would maximize the payout from the insurance.
Doctors liked it because it was easy to sign up and just increase their revenue without doing any additional work.
- nradov 8y agoThat's one of the reasons why insurers are moving away from the fee-for-service model toward value-based care. So those bullshit jobs at least will eventually disappear.