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Because of the database of ER bills that we've crowdsourced this past year
- alexc05 8y agoTerrible headline - but interesting twitter thread. Glad I clicked. I wonder why Zuckerberg SF General Hospital ER is so anomalous.
- asdf333 8y agomost likely due to 1. they need to recoup enough from insurance companies which pay out a percentage of the list price 2. they do not expect individuals to ever pay their medical bills which are at list price i have no proof of that but this would be my guess
- nerfhammer 8y agoSupposedly it's simply because the city runs it that way https://twitter.com/sarahkliff/status/1082360904350658560 https://twitter.com/sarahkliff/status/1082360904350658560 (different thread by same author)
- dopylitty 8y agoThis is an awful headline but a great series of posts. From an HN perspective I could imagine formalizing a system similar to the Vox DB. The system could ingest, anonymize, and analyze user submitted medical bills then it could provide a public service to highlight how ridiculous medical billing and payment are in the US.