Launch HN: Certainly Health (YC S23) – Book doctors without surprise bills
This is nice and I hope it becomes standard. I have basically not been to the doctor in 7 years because of medical bill fears.<p>I work at a big tech company and have theoretically very good insurance, but I have heard stories where the insurance gets declined even though they say they take it… or some lab specialist is using a different insurance network and you have no control over using them. If I don’t have coverage then there is nothing stopping them from billing me like $1m as far as I can tell, <i>after the fact</i>, when I can’t just decline the service. It’s insane that they can’t say what it will cost up front.<p>My company switched insurance <i>name</i> but not <i>network</i> and doctors didn’t understand it and started denying the claims… even though they were technically in the network! That’s when I gave up, after reading other employees’ reports of that.