Interesting to hear that even lawyers can’t manage this better. I can’t think of any other industry with such corrupt and flawed billing practices that doesn’t get forced by law to clean up its practices. My girlfriend has spent months fixing problems that were clearly caused by the insurance. On the way the insurance lied repeatedly but in the end she was still on the hook for 100s of thousand of dollars if she didn’t fix this.

Better to deal with a mafia loan shark than with hospitals or insurers. Mobsters probably have stronger ethics.