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The upside of cash-pay for providers

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...Mostly that the existing reimbursement system is terrible

The weirdest parts of the medical industry happen in the interstices. It’s also where the biggest opportunity for startup disruption is. Case in point: the system for physician reimbursement. It’s…terrible. It’s unwieldy, difficult to track, and physicians often get paid by insurers months after a patient encounter. But a new bucket of startups are starting to build out a cash-pay system that exists alongside the insurer system, creating new opportunities for the uninsured, the under-insured, and patients and doctors who are sick of waiting for the current system to change. When an insured…

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