Not a doctor, but I have spent ~10 years working with data on the reimbursement side of a large hospital. Please see my comment above.
That's not true, due to price discrimination. They can't precisely tell how much they can get paid for something until they submit invoices to insurers.
I can confirm that, at least for an N of 1. Contracts with individual insurers are typically negotiated to be set to a percentage of (known) Medicare reimbursement for a given procedure. As it is with any negotiations,…
> The lingo is half the battle for most things but for math it seems like the lingo is the entire battle. There's a kernel of truth there. To abuse the DSL metaphor further, even mildly complicated mathematics concepts…
That's a false equivalency. Mathematics, in practice, is more of a domain specific language that encapsulates more and more precise information as you increase the level of abstraction. The levels of abstraction layer…
Not a doctor, but I have spent ~10 years working with data on the reimbursement side of a large hospital. Please see my comment above.
That's not true, due to price discrimination. They can't precisely tell how much they can get paid for something until they submit invoices to insurers.
I can confirm that, at least for an N of 1. Contracts with individual insurers are typically negotiated to be set to a percentage of (known) Medicare reimbursement for a given procedure. As it is with any negotiations,…
> The lingo is half the battle for most things but for math it seems like the lingo is the entire battle. There's a kernel of truth there. To abuse the DSL metaphor further, even mildly complicated mathematics concepts…
That's a false equivalency. Mathematics, in practice, is more of a domain specific language that encapsulates more and more precise information as you increase the level of abstraction. The levels of abstraction layer…