Perry: Medical Billing Remains Manual Because Industry Lacks Good Software
Nick Perry · Ep 73: Lessons from Palantir & How Candid Health Is Fixing the $280B Healthcare Billing Fiasco · Joe Lonsdale · Dec 7, 2023 · at 6:11
Nick Perry, co-founder and CEO of Candid Health, discusses the lack of modern automation software in the $280 billion healthcare billing sector.
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“Why this is so expensive, so manual is because there's no good software today. People have to do this by memory or they're like, Creating their own rules or they're like doing things. They're hand jamming. There's a lot of manual work to actually try to do all of these things correctly the first time. And there just hasn't been any good software built to do this stuff for them.”
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