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Podcast: A Health Podyssey
Episode: Barak Richman On The Heavy Costs of Health Care Coding
Description: In the United States we have multiple commercial health insurers, each with their own rules regarding filing and documenting claims for payment.Medicare and Medicaid have their own rules and both of those programs rely heavily on insurers who impose their own rules. All this adds up to is significant burden on health care providers who rely upon staff and technology to navigate this complex system.While there are various estimates, all told administrative costs account for at least a few hundred billion dollars of health care spending each...