[delfinom]

Nope.

Healthcare megacorps are buying up independent practices like crazy. All because doctors can't keep up with the bullshit IT required for insurance, state mandates, etc and that's in addition to the insanity of even renting commercial real estate for an office these days.

These megacorps set quotas and push doctors to nickel and dime like crazy. They sure as shit will spend the money to find robots that can give you a prostate exam with a robot dildo.

[mdaniel]

Sounds good; if all these pro-AI folks could get it to complete the insurance paperwork that'd be swell. Actually, come to think of it, do that for the paperwork from both sides, doctor and patient, and eliminate and entire class of leaches upon humanity

I'm going to laugh if DOGE eliminates the IRS, but also might be thankful

[tyre]

Join us at https://www.camber.health/ if you want to help fix this.

We build software that automates insurance billing for clinics.

And yes, the sentiment is correct that the burden of insurance encourages consolidation in healthcare. Wrapping that away (i.e. Stripe for healthcare financial infra) lowers the barrier to entrepreneurship.

[rscho]

Don't laugh too quickly, because what you describe is already happening: models are used to design processes allowing insurance corps to deny claims optimally, while on the other side models write your claims. If I were you, I wouldn't be laughing. If you are laughing, then you don't see where this is going to take us.

[holdenk]

Admittedly just one part of the insurance paperwork but we're working on automating appeals at Fight Health Insurance / Fight Paperwork :) ( https://www.fighthealthinsurance.com/ / https://www.fightpaperwork.com/ )

[rscho]

Except the tech to do that is not there, and we're quite far from it. It's one thing to have a robot write text, it's a whole other thing to have a robot perform at human level in medical procedures. Not happening tomorrow.