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Healthcare runs on the office landline. Behind every doctor is a room you never see: staff in headsets, scheduling patient visits while sitting on hold with insurance companies, typing into the electronic health record (EHR) one field at a time. None of it is medicine, and all of it decides whether you get seen and...

Healthcare runs on the office landline. Behind every doctor is a room you never see: staff in headsets, scheduling patient visits while sitting on hold with insurance companies, typing into the electronic health record (EHR) one field at a time. None of it is medicine, and all of it decides whether you get seen and whether your doctor gets paid. Confirming your insurance coverage before a visit can mean a 40-minute phone call. Get one field wrong and the appointment doesn’t clear, the claim goes unpaid, and you land in collections months later – for care you assumed was covered. Decades of…

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