Standardize the bill format across all providers, and provide EDI billing option, or a digital copy, and then we have something very easy to parse and store and

Standardize the bill format across all providers, and provide EDI billing option, or a digital copy, and then we have something very easy to parse and store and make comparisons. Barring that, develop OCR parser. There's probably just a few programs that hospitals use that generate the bill paper so most formats could be profiled.