Interesting. Upshot - bill sent to Claude, Claude generated questions, human in the loop to negotiate and summarize. Ultimately they suggested a number to the hospital, the hospital chiseled them a few grand, and they settled.
Not mentioned, and I'm interested, is how accurate Claude's reading of the various medicare rules are. I presume these letters went to someone who had only slightly more knowledge of medicare billing rules than the author -- hospitals are arcane and cryptic places, most especially the billing departments.
Yes, wish I could see the Claude conversation here.
The good news is this should be easy to reproduce to see how it does - just google around for an example medical bill with billing codes and feed it to Claude.
Not mentioned, and I'm interested, is how accurate Claude's reading of the various medicare rules are. I presume these letters went to someone who had only slightly more knowledge of medicare billing rules than the author -- hospitals are arcane and cryptic places, most especially the billing departments.