[blastbking]

Thank you for the support! I think it is a challenging product to build for sure. We're focusing with simpler procedures that involve a few CPT codes and a single provider to make the problem easier but definitely want to figure out a way to make those complex procedures shoppable.

I didn't know that they weren't allowed to offer cash rates to insured patients! Definitely a bummer from the patient's perspective (why pay for insurance if it will just cost you more...).

Have heard a lot about the book, will check it out!

[arnonejoe]

If you are using CPT codes they are licensed by the AMA. I remember calling them to see if we could use them on our site and at the time I think they wanted a $15 fee per practice to use them. It was too cost prohibitive for us to use them. We ended up coming up with our own CPT code equivalents to get around this. One of the surgeons on our team pulled together a few hundred new codes and wrote new titles for them. We came up with a rosetta stone that we would use to set up providers. If you end up doing the same, it would be nice to publish a set of open source CPT codes for small start ups. I’ve included the link to the AMA CPT licensing page below. Good luck! I really hope you make it.

https://help.practicefusion.com/s/article/CPT-License-FAQ#:~....

[blastbking]

That's a great idea / suggestion! Due to the licensing rule we avoid showing CPT codes to patients and write our own descriptions. I think we might open source that as I hate that AMA tries to charge so much for this - they don't do any work and just make healthcare more expensive for everyone.

[arnonejoe]

That would be awesome if you could do this. We had planned to create an open source site and seed it with our codes but we didn’t want to take focus off of our product. It would almost need to be done as a wikipedia style site that could be maintained by the community.