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> You could give me the source code and let me run this function If I understand correctly, in this case, that function's source is highly distributed in wetwa
by imoverclocked 4y ago
> You could give me the source code and let me run this function
If I understand correctly, in this case, that function's source is highly distributed in wetware. It's about as closed-source as it gets; nobody has anywhere near the full source. Each hospital is its own fiefdom!
- acchow 4y agoYeah this is part of the problem. But even if you had like 10M rows of pricing and then gave a 2% discount to entity A, 3% discount to entity B, 4% discount to C, etc. You could publish these discount rules. Or you could just multiply the 10M rows by the number of different entities giving 10*n M rows. And then let the consumer of the data try to figure out the rules from the output...?
- ctchocula 4y agoIt would be interesting to see whether it's possible to reconstruct the rules by comparing the negotiated prices to a baseline like Medicare price, and doing classification into discount buckets to recover the categories insurers negotiated.