Re:Hepatitis C kills more Americans than all other infectiou...
by Retric on Thursday December 26, 2019 @11:18AM
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Governments add far less overhead in this area because they have more data and can thus use random inspection of bills for validation. Further, when setting rates every insurer has a separate negotiation involving even more overhead.
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Re:Hepatitis C kills more Americans than all other infectiou...
by lotsofpulp on Thursday December 26, 2019 @11:35AM
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The government hires health insurance companies to do the inspections. I don't know of any US government that doesn't contract implementation of Medicaid/Medicare to UHG/Anthem/Humana/etc. So all the insurers have all the data anyway, and they are not inspecting each and every bill, they are also using heuristics.
Re:Hepatitis C kills more Americans than all other infectiou...
by Retric on Thursday December 26, 2019 @03:52PM
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Using heuristics on smaller sample sizes is inherently less efficient. You can get reasonable polling data on 50 million voters using 10,000 samples. That’s 1 sample per 5,000 voters. Drop the election down to a local election with 10,000 voters and the same ratio provides 2 samples telling you almost nothing.
Thus, if 5 insurance companies send patients to the same doctor you simply have more overhead.