Hacker News with Generative AI: Medical Billing

"Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay": Blue Cross Approved Surgeries Then Refused to Pay (propublica.org)
Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.
Medical billing firm Medusind discloses breach affecting 360k people (bleepingcomputer.com)
Medusind, a leading billing provider for healthcare organizations, is notifying hundreds of thousands of individuals of a data breach that exposed their personal and health information more than a year ago, in December 2023.
Doc resigns after his employer charges $11k for a $8 Covid test (2020) (pluralistic.net)
Zachary Sussman is a pathologist who oversaw covid tests at 4 standalone ERs for Physicians Premier, but he resigned in horror after he got a $8 covid test at one of the company's locations and then they billed his insurer $10,984.16 for it.
Anaesthesiologists and Surprise Billing (twitter.com)