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Re:Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole? by jasonlbaptiste on Monday October 24, 2016 @07:06PM (#12783710)
Insurance billing. These need to be exact in order to correlate to a) rates negotiated b) data collected for future underwriting c) exact repayment. Medical billing is a crazy world.
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Re:Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole? by hackuser on Monday October 24, 2016 @08:30PM (#12784175)
Isn't all this coding a U.S. phenomenon? I've read that single-payer systems like Canada's require orders of magnitude less labor and paperwork.
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Re:Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole? by danohu on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @06:44AM (#12786751)
In the UK there is still a lot of this, even though healthcare is centrally funded and (somewhat) centrally administered.

I worked briefly with a company doing medical transcription. It opened my eyes to how much billing-related paperwork goes on in hospital back offices.

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