Show HN: Demo application for Eligible Web Services.

[malay]

For a number of common health insurance transactions (verifying/checking health insurance information for a patient, procedure eligibility, patient demographics, claims status) that are part of the standard HIPAA transaction set, Eligible replaces legacy X12 EDI with a modern API.

Basically, if you are building any healthcare tools that could use administrative information from a health insurance company, you should probably be doing it on Eligible's platform.

http://eligibleapi.com

[MatthewPhillips]

Just so happens this hits #1 on HN just as GitHub has a major service outage... https://status.github.com/

[kmfrk]

Got it working after some refreshing. Getting errors while trying to make it work locally, though.

The read-only demo is at http://eligible-demo.herokuapp.com/.

Not that I understand what this is supposed to be about, though.

[ghayes]

Well, can someone explain what this is about in the meantime?

[kategleason]

weeee github is back up!

[sideproject]

I really really have no idea what this thing is about. Can someone explain please?

[kategleason]

Instant integration with over 700 health insurance companies across the country. Healthcare companies use us to query for real time information on their patient's benefit plans. eligibleapi.com

[markolschesky]

If you don't believe in easy eligibility integration yet, prepare for the magic show.

[BSousa]

Not related to the project itself but with Eligible. Not sure if the author is related to them.

I just checked their pricing page.

Why the hell do they have this in a threatening wording:

* If you force us to apply pass-throughs we will contact you.

First, why use the * ? I scanned the damn page trying to find out where the * was on the text.

Second, 'if you FORCE us ... we WILL contact you'. I don't even know what pass-through is but honestly, I feel I'm already under scrutiny even before using them.

Save it for the FAQ or Terms of Service.

[kategleason]

yeah the wording is my fault. I'll update it now. What I should have wrote is: "if you're using us exclusively for medicaid transactions, we'll contact you"

the reason being is because we actually get charged some govt pass through fee for medicaid transactions right now. for all our other customers the volume is low enough where we just take the loss, but for those only planning to ping medicaid companies it would not be worth it to us.

[vyrotek]

As someone who once worked in this space (Specifically hospital HIMS), you had me at HL7. :)

[kategleason]

thanks! :)

[ramoq]

how does this jive with RBM's? Are you even including radiology related service codes?

[kategleason]

List of service codes: https://eligibleapi.com/service-codes

[marikachen]

Great Job!