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> We see new faces all the time, but when the person becomes "ready" and crosses the transition point, the particular new face seen at this particular moment becomes the object of spontaneous symmetry breaking, which means that this effect is essentially random. The person could have seen somebody else (not completely disgusting) at this moment and would fallen in love in that other person.

The first time I ever want to call a physics paper "adorable." :-)

It's not quite that simple. Remember that this database was built collaboratively, and it's possible that our bounty hunters just didn't get to that hospital. We have fairly good coverage, but it's impossible to say if 1) they didn't find the chargemaster, but it exists or 2) they didn't look for it.

We'll probably run another price bounty in the future to capture the rest of the chargemasters.

Thank you! I appreciate the correction, and this exactly shows how challenging it is for the average consumer to actually use these chargemasters in the first place to do their own research.

That's a great piece of information that I'd have never known about without an insider telling me. So thanks!

Good point. With the data as sparse and dirty as it is, it's hard to get a reliable analysis for specific procedures. Or at least one I consider publishable. That, plus, I don't have a good understanding of how medical billing works on the inside.

Some of that will hopefully change in the coming months as new data comes in (will write more about that in another blog.)

If you want to look at how prices for different procedures can vary between hospitals, you can get a rough idea from a previous blog post I wrote:

https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2022-05-06-the-most-expensive-h...

I'm as surprised as anyone to see this #1 on HN. Glad y'all like it. AMA.

Feedback, criticism, comments, directions to go, whatever.

This is part of a continuing series I'm writing on hospital prices.[1] We've collected over 300M prices as part of our hospital price bounty on DoltHub. Let me know if you have any questions or comments.

[1] https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2022-05-06-the-most-expensive-h...

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