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We handle the connections to the insurance companies and the EDI to JSON transformation. I respect your point about 5 cents being high. We, of course,…",{"value":64,"source":50,"evidence":65},"Developers building apps for the medical industry",[66],{"id":61,"by":11,"text":62},{"value":68,"source":50,"evidence":69},"5 cents per successful call",[70,71],{"id":61,"by":11,"text":62},{"id":72,"by":11,"text":73},"4369058","It was the first comment so I was happy and thanked him\u002Fher. Sorry to fire off your red flag. We've been killing ourselves over this data format and connections work for the past…",{"value":75,"source":50,"evidence":76},"Eligibility checks are a pain point; the maker spent nine months on the data format and connections",[77,78],{"id":72,"by":11,"text":73},{"id":61,"by":11,"text":62},[],"unknown","beta",{"praise":83,"objections":112,"requests":154,"questions":177,"alternatives":196},[84,95,105],{"value":85,"source":86,"evidence":87},"Useful for cutting healthcare admin costs and paperwork","commenter",[88,91],{"id":89,"by":58,"text":90},"4369135","API's and services like this are Key in making it so that more people will be able to afford medical care. Solving the current cluster F* of paperwork and time involved in…",{"id":92,"by":93,"text":94},"4372616","mikecuesta","Healthcare and Health IT are plagued with an insurmountable amount of complexity, administrative burden and draconian policies which hinder a lot of the potential for innovation.…",{"value":96,"source":86,"evidence":97},"Responsive team that improves quickly",[98,102],{"id":99,"by":100,"text":101},"4369065","buss","I've been using Eligible API for just over a week and I must say that I'm loving it so far. Kate & Patrice have been extremely responsive and improving incredibly fast.",{"id":103,"by":11,"text":104},"4369489","Your team has helped us improve 100% over past week alone. Thanks again.",{"value":106,"source":86,"evidence":107},"Nice Bootstrap landing page design",[108],{"id":109,"by":110,"text":111},"4368941","Danieru","I am impressed by this site's use of Bootstrap. Most Bootstrap sites look like exact clones of the example templates with some colors swapped. The Bootstrap origin on this site…",[113,121,135,143],{"value":114,"source":86,"evidence":115},"JSON structure is hard to read; lists modeled as numbered objects",[116,120],{"id":117,"by":118,"text":119},"4369340","6ren","The deeply nested JSON (9 levels) seems difficult to understand without some kind of schema\u002Fdetailed docs - though maybe domain users are already familiar with the underlying…",{"id":53,"by":54,"text":55},{"value":122,"source":86,"evidence":123},"5 cents per call seems expensive",[124,128,132],{"id":125,"by":126,"text":127},"4368913","chime","If I understand it correctly, this is an EDI to JSON API? At 5c\u002Fcall, it seems like one of the most expensive APIs out there but I'm guessing it does something that is very…",{"id":129,"by":130,"text":131},"4369045","joering2","> Thanks for your comment. Perhaps I am having a bad day, but is it really necessary to thank someone for their question? Seriously, this makes me feel like I am dumb for asking…",{"id":133,"by":130,"text":134},"4369067","ok then can you give me any reasonable calculation behind why this is 5cents, not 6, or 10, 15 or 1 ?",{"value":136,"source":86,"evidence":137},"Physicians already get free eligibility checks from insurers; privacy concerns about passing patient data through",[138,142],{"id":139,"by":140,"text":141},"4371056","logjam","I don't get this. I'm a physician, and every insurance company to which I submit claims already has a web service in place to check eligibility...at no charge. Already. There…",{"id":129,"by":130,"text":131},{"value":144,"source":86,"evidence":145},"Landing page and docs unclear about what the data is",[146,150],{"id":147,"by":148,"text":149},"4368930","technotony","Anything involving health data is interesting and has the potential to improve lives, however there isn't enough information on the landing page here to indicate what this data…",{"id":151,"by":152,"text":153},"4369334","daigoba66","Some questions that immediately came to mind after reading through the docs: 1. Does the response contain more than just the 271 EB segments? The demographics segments are…",[155,162,169,173],{"value":156,"source":86,"evidence":157},"Provide sample API with test data without sign-up",[158],{"id":159,"by":160,"text":161},"4369141","cllns","It would be cool to provide a sample API with test data. You could either require sign-up (as individual or organization, but not necessarily a registered company) or don't. 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I'd love to do some statistical analysis on this and get some real insight about how different insurance companies treat…",{"value":186,"source":86,"evidence":187},"How reliable are direct payer connections versus EDI vendors?",[188],{"id":151,"by":152,"text":153},{"value":190,"source":86,"evidence":191},"Why is the response read-only and how do providers submit records?",[192],{"id":193,"by":194,"text":195},"4369002","dfc","I was surprised by the read-only aspect of the API. How do doctors\u002Fmedical providers\u002Femployers submit records and or update billing information? I guess I am under the impression…",[197,207],{"value":198,"source":86,"evidence":199},"Castlight Health",[200,203],{"id":201,"by":11,"text":202},"4369470","Agreed. Castlight health is doing this for employees of certain companies http:\u002F\u002Fwww.castlighthealth.com\u002F.",{"id":204,"by":205,"text":206},"4369560","aamar","I as a user would like to tell you my insurance info and tell you what procedure I want and you tell me the best\u002Fcheapest location to get that done. This is offered by Castlight…",{"value":208,"source":86,"evidence":209},"Simplee.com",[210],{"id":211,"by":212,"text":213},"4368969","seltzered_","Just fyi, there's a \"mint for healthcare\" startup called simplee.com that's been around for a year or two. You link the site up to your various health insurance plans. I've used…",{"comments":215,"answered":216,"key":217},27,14,[218,221,224],{"id":219,"text":220},"4369412","can we hire you? I love your feedback, we know this is still raw (early beta) but its great hearing constructive suggestions. Please email when you have a chance…",{"id":222,"text":223},"4369539","Waiting for that bad boy. 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