Have an agent check a hospital bill against public prices
A marketing consultant in New York used Claude to scrutinise a sister-in-law's hospital bill of 195,628 dollars. Claude built a spreadsheet comparing the billed codes with Medicare rates and estimated a fair price near 28,675 dollars. After a six-page letter the settlement landed at roughly 32,500 dollars, about 163,000 below the bill. It is a self-reported account, and Claude's first draft showed zeros for bundled codes, so everything had to be checked.
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What was done
A marketing consultant in New York used Claude to scrutinise a sister-in-law's hospital bill of 195,628 dollars. Claude built a spreadsheet comparing the billed codes with Medicare rates and estimated a fair price near 28,675 dollars. After a six-page letter the settlement landed at roughly 32,500 dollars, about 163,000 below the bill. It is a self-reported account, and Claude's first draft showed zeros for bundled codes, so everything had to be checked.
How to do it
- Paste the prompt into the tool, and replace the text in brackets with your own.
- Read the answer through. Do not send, delete or publish anything until you have seen it yourself.
- Check the original before you trust a figure, a name or a date.
Try it with Claude
Go through this hospital bill line by line and compare each code with public reference prices. Mark codes that are bundled, billed twice or look wrong, and estimate a fair price. Ask me about insurance, location and year first. Show me the spreadsheet and the draft letter before anything is sent. You are done when I have a table with billed and estimated price per code and I have checked the codes against the bill myself.
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