Proctor: AI Turns Billing Analysts From Authors Into Editors
Doug Proctor · Ep 73: Lessons from Palantir & How Candid Health Is Fixing the $280B Healthcare Billing Fiasco · Joe Lonsdale · Dec 7, 2023 · at 17:54
Doug Proctor, co-founder and COO of Candid Health, discusses how AI rules engines automate healthcare billing workflows.
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“Phase two is essentially instead of having to have a really, like, Analytically oriented person digging through claims data and finding out the rules. It's actually like, how do you suggest the rules? Okay. These are the patterns of issues we're seeing. Consider this as a recommendation engine. So you really turn the user from more of an author into more of an editor who's then going to go in and say, this looks good. This looks bad. Let's test this.”
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