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Super curious about this, too. Also! What did they do before they could store 100TB of pricing data? How has pricing (and care quality) changed as a result of
by gffrd 4y ago
Super curious about this, too.
Also! What did they do before they could store 100TB of pricing data? How has pricing (and care quality) changed as a result of being able to do this type of thing?
- yojo 4y agoPossibly the original data is logically compressed. E.g. payer A pays 110% of our standard rates, payer B pays 85% of our standard rates. Those two rows could translate into thousands of CSV lines depending on the number of procedures. Maybe you have a couple one off negotiations for high volume procedures, but even still the source data could be several orders of magnitude smaller than the dumps.
- acchow 4y agoThey are obviously not computing pricing this way. Their pricing system applies rules. But they are dumping every possible combination.
- kderbyma 4y agothis would be a great social study. cases where technology has enabled the racketeering and price gouging by corporations with almost no gains in efficiency or output or quality or any metric of value.