> You're in charge of saving lives but you can't handle something as standard as cost estimation.
The irony, coming from a profession which is notoriously bad at cost estimation.
But in any case, the difficultly is not so much the materials/services as much as figuring out what the patient's insurance company (which is completely different then the practice) will cover and by how much. But of course that's actually what matters to the patient.
They know medicine, not the intricacies of your particular insurance policy.
Source: Am founder of rivethealth.com which does cost estimation.
The irony, coming from a profession which is notoriously bad at cost estimation.
But in any case, the difficultly is not so much the materials/services as much as figuring out what the patient's insurance company (which is completely different then the practice) will cover and by how much. But of course that's actually what matters to the patient.
They know medicine, not the intricacies of your particular insurance policy.
Source: Am founder of rivethealth.com which does cost estimation.