sl-dolt

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by sl-dolt 4y ago
I'm the author (Alec.) This is the data gathering phase. When we're able to release a database of these hospital prices with high data quality I think it'll be a pretty big deal, just because it's so much work. It's
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by sl-dolt 4y ago
I'm the author of the article. The inflated price you're talking about is called the "gross price." It's a made-up price, or MSRP. Just publishing this price list isn't that helpful. The price lists are suppose
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Open-source hospital price transparency(dolthub.com)
649 points by sl-dolt 4y ago|275 comments
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Python tools for insurance price transparency(dolthub.com)
1 points by sl-dolt 4y ago|0 comments
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Insurer price transparency effort hamstrung by flawed data(modernhealthcare.com)
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Beyond the trillion prices: pricing C-sections in America(dolthub.com)
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by sl-dolt 4y ago
Love the insights! Making a note to dig deeper into this. Feel free to reach out to me via email as well if you want to discuss more: alec@dolthub.com
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by sl-dolt 4y ago
I know it's not in the business interest of Turquoise Health, but I'd like to see that data be downloadable. There's a lot of insight sitting in the data. This blog was a feasibility analysis to see what kind of work it would
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by sl-dolt 4y ago
I'm the author. A question I have is: how did so many prices ever get negotiated in the first place? What kind of systems are in place to do this kind of micro-negotiation?
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by sl-dolt 4y ago
I'm not sure what format they store their records in, but I have a hunch it's a lot more structured than what we see in the CSV files. The data dumps have to comply with some CMS guidelines set out here: https://github.
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by sl-dolt 4y ago
Figuring out the size of this data was part of the research phase for doing just that: building out that database. I'm curious to know if other people are already working on it (maybe Turquoise Health?)
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by sl-dolt 4y ago
It's all fully public. Here are some tools that will get you the negotiated rates links along with the sizes of all the files: https://github.com/alecstein/transparency-in-coverage-filesi... This won't get yo
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Health insurers just published close to a trillion hospital prices(dolthub.com)
901 points by sl-dolt 4y ago|526 comments
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by sl-dolt 4y ago
It is a joke, man.
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by sl-dolt 4y ago
> We see new faces all the time, but when the person becomes "ready" and crosses the transition point, the particular new face seen at this particular moment becomes the object of spontaneous symmetry breaking, which means that
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Data, Deaths, and the Damn Prison System(dolthub.com)
1 points by sl-dolt 4y ago|0 comments
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by sl-dolt 4y ago
It's not quite that simple. Remember that this database was built collaboratively, and it's possible that our bounty hunters just didn't get to that hospital. We have fairly good coverage, but it's impossible to say if 1
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by sl-dolt 4y ago
Thank you! I appreciate the correction, and this exactly shows how challenging it is for the average consumer to actually use these chargemasters in the first place to do their own research.
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by sl-dolt 4y ago
That's a great piece of information that I'd have never known about without an insider telling me. So thanks!
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by sl-dolt 4y ago
Good point. With the data as sparse and dirty as it is, it's hard to get a reliable analysis for specific procedures. Or at least one I consider publishable. That, plus, I don't have a good understanding of how medical billing wor
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by sl-dolt 4y ago
I'm as surprised as anyone to see this #1 on HN. Glad y'all like it. AMA. Feedback, criticism, comments, directions to go, whatever.
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by sl-dolt 4y ago
This is part of a continuing series I'm writing on hospital prices.[1] We've collected over 300M prices as part of our hospital price bounty on DoltHub. Let me know if you have any questions or comments. [1] https://www
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What hospitals charge when your insurance can't say no(dolthub.com)
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Ask HN: I have a squad of scrapers. What datasets should we build?
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Why nonprofit hospitals can be so damn expensive(dolthub.com)
2 points by sl-dolt 4y ago|0 comments