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Re:Why Doctors Hate Their Computers (2018) by pc86 on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @09:58AM (#24341758)
In the US medical billers make like $8/hr, I'm not sure that's a huge cost center compared to the $400k/yr physician.
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Re:Why Doctors Hate Their Computers (2018) by ric2b on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @05:46AM (#24351549)
But is the ratio 1 to 1? Or are there way more medical billers than physicians?

Anyway, it's an unnecessary cost.

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Re:Why Doctors Hate Their Computers (2018) by pc86 on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @07:34AM (#24352211)
One of my previous employers had approximately a dozen billers for 75-or-so physicians, and the average physician salary was $500k.
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Re:Why Doctors Hate Their Computers (2018) by arethuza on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @07:41AM (#24352244)
Presumably the billers spend a lot of time trying to get money out of insurance companies? We don't have those either..

[We do have private healthcare provides but even they seem much cheaper than the US system]

Edit: Any time the US healthcare system is described on HN it all sounds rather bureaucratic and stressful - as if being sick wasn't bad enough already!

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