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We're trying to reclaim the word

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 pr…

> 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 …

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 …

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 diffic…

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 h…

Thanks. Will fix that.

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 h…

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 …

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 i…

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 rat…

This is all insurers, all US hospitals, and 70 billing codes (CMS-specified "shoppable" services).

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 publ…

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…

I'm the author, feel free to AMA.

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 fou…