DollaWilliam

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   by DollaWilliam 10y ago

   Not a doctor, but I have spent ~10 years working with data on the reimbursement side of a large hospital. Please see my comment above.
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   by DollaWilliam 10y ago

   That's not true, due to price discrimination. They can't precisely tell how much they can get paid for something until they submit invoices to insurers.
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   by DollaWilliam 10y ago

   I can confirm that, at least for an N of 1. Contracts with individual insurers are typically negotiated to be set to a percentage of (known) Medicare reimbursement for a given procedure. As it is with any negotiations, more powerful insurer
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   by DollaWilliam 10y ago

   > The lingo is half the battle for most things but for math it seems like the lingo is the entire battle. There's a kernel of truth there. To abuse the DSL metaphor further, even mildly complicated mathematics concepts are only expr
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   by DollaWilliam 10y ago

   That's a false equivalency. Mathematics, in practice, is more of a domain specific language that encapsulates more and more precise information as you increase the level of abstraction. The levels of abstraction layer upon one another