Yes, I'm willing to give up on the comparison to private insurance/transactions. So now I'm just wondering how to get a hold of Medicare reimbursement rates. We know that they vary by location, and other factors. But it must boil down somewhere, to a lookup table or a formula or the guy processing the forms who rolls a dice and multiplies by the last 3 digits of the medical code to come up with the reimbursement, etc.. Or is it all based on trust, and Medicare just pays 70% of any invoice that gets submitted to them? (And they send auditors out every once in a while in order to keep up appearances)
