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Medical billing is broken Is it? Seriously - how do you know? More specifically: broken compared to what? What would you replace it with? Be specific, plea
by lisasays 3y ago
Medical billing is broken
Is it?
Seriously - how do you know? More specifically: broken compared to what? What would you replace it with?
Be specific, please.
Keeping in mind that it's like, an extremely complex domain and all, you know.
- johntiger1 3y agoYep, this seems like surface level complexity. Like adding a new/non-existing key to a dictionary, it shouldn't surprise us that there can be different codes for getting bitten by different things
- lmm 3y agoBroken compared to what literally any other country in the world does? Personally I'd replace it with publicly funded healthcare, but even those countries that still feel the need to bill the victim have avoided the whole billing-insurance complex that the US has.
- lisasays 3y agoWell obviously (or so I thought) was referring to how it's modeled (with the crazy codes and all) based on the way the system currently is -- not on how the system "should be". The comment I was responding to just seemed to be saying: "Gee, this is complicated." Well yeah. Because what it has to do is (based on the way things are presently, and beyond anyone's ability to change in the near-term) complicated. Crazy billing codes are a pain signal. They aren't the underlying malady itself.
- EliRivers 3y agoCan we bill it like my mechanic does? Parts and labour. I could see that some medical people would want to have their time considered more valuable, so how about bill for parts, and labour depending on minimum qualification to do it.