sl-dolt

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GPT-4 function calling can label hospital price data(dolthub.com)
2 points by sl-dolt 3y ago|0 comments
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Community-built hospital price database hits 400 hospitals(dolthub.com)
70 points by sl-dolt 3y ago|6 comments
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by sl-dolt 3y ago
We're trying to reclaim the word
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by sl-dolt 3y ago
We're doing something a bit similar at DoltHub, where databases are managed with a GitHub like workflow, and where you get the pros and cons of that kind of system. Our hospital price database (work ongoing daily) is community built:
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by sl-dolt 3y ago
> I'd love to see what this map looks like filtered for specific services. Sure. I did something like that with our insurance data. Did a quick folium visualization. You can start from here: https://www.dolthub.com/r
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by sl-dolt 3y ago
That's really cool. I'll probably end up trying to reproduce this by following your work step-by-step. I'm not too familiar with OSM, besides having used Nominatim. Along the same lines we're crowdsourcing a database of
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by sl-dolt 3y ago
Author here. The problem is checking compliance. By publishing these files, they seem compliant, but really aren't. Since the payors are the guardians of the data, it's very difficult to check that what they're posting is cor
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by sl-dolt 3y ago
Completely agree. There are databases like this out there (All-Payer-Claims database) but they're extremely expensive (it would cost millions to get data for the entire US) and I have no idea why.
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by sl-dolt 3y ago
Thanks. Will fix that.
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by sl-dolt 3y ago
I'm the author. When I write articles I have to make a choice: make them readable by the public, or detailed enough to satisfy the experts. I try to strike a balance, but I can't have both. Please take a look at the CMS Price Tran
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by sl-dolt 3y ago
I'm the author. Take an example like this https://github.com/CMSgov/price-transparency-guide/discussio... I don't know how closely you've worked with this data -- you clearly have some kind of exper
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by sl-dolt 3y ago
I'm the author. Publishing my reply to you (as I understood your question): > No one can produce the corrected/missing rates but the insurance companies themselves. All we can do is point out when we’ve found rates/pattern
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by sl-dolt 3y ago
This is basically what health insurance companies do. They want higher billed rates from hospitals so that they can offer better "discounts." In reality, no one pays the billed rates.
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New health insurance “transparency data” looks suspiciously wrong(dolthub.com)
446 points by sl-dolt 3y ago|162 comments
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by sl-dolt 3y ago
This is all insurers, all US hospitals, and 70 billing codes (CMS-specified "shoppable" services).
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Open Database of Hospital Prices(dolthub.com)
1 points by sl-dolt 3y ago|2 comments
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by sl-dolt 3y ago
I think this is a first of its kind. Please give your feedback. We recently created this database of 70 CMS shoppable services for all US hospitals. It comes from the recently published insurance MRF data. We created this database in a dist
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Price Transparency Is Broken(dolthub.com)
3 points by sl-dolt 3y ago|1 comments
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by sl-dolt 4y ago
Absolutely interested, on my end at least. I wrote this to manage the transparency in coverage files: https://github.com/dolthub/data-analysis/tree/main/transpare... but I'm always looking for bette
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by sl-dolt 4y ago
I'm the author, feel free to AMA.
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Open source lab test pricing data, and why prices vary so much(dolthub.com)
2 points by sl-dolt 4y ago|1 comments
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by sl-dolt 4y ago
We're working on making all the data from the Transparency in Coverage Act open source to whatever extent possible. I wrote here about our efforts to make this work and what we found: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i
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Explore lab test prices from the Transparency in Coverage Act(dolthub.com)
1 points by sl-dolt 4y ago|1 comments
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Shrinking the Insurance Data Dump(dolthub.com)
3 points by sl-dolt 4y ago|1 comments
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by sl-dolt 4y ago
You can stream gzipped files to work with them out of memory. Can you stream this? Is that even a use-case to consider?
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Generator Tricks for Systems Programmers, v3.0 [Python](dabeaz.com)
1 points by sl-dolt 4y ago|0 comments
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by sl-dolt 4y ago
I'm the author. The CMS has done a lot since then, including beginning to enforce their Transparency in Coverage act, which is even more comprehensive than the Transparency in Pricing act (which is what this article is about.) See the
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by sl-dolt 4y ago
I'm the author. That's right. At least, starting from our database, you won't have to do the hard work of tracking down each of these 5000+ URLs.
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by sl-dolt 4y ago
I'm the author of the article, but I'm not a lawyer. Regarding your first point: I'm aware of the copyright on billing codes. I suspect it means "you can't make your own billing codes based off of our system."
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by sl-dolt 4y ago
I'm the author. The CMS law relates to specific pricing data, where each billing code is itemized, and prices are given down to the insurer level. These prices have only been available since Jan 1, 2021. Aggregate data (or "list p

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