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+-   The Doctor Will see your Credit Score Now-> on Friday January 18 2008, @05:56PM mytrip

Submitted by mytrip on Friday January 18 2008, @05:56PM
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mytrip writes "The folks who invented the credit score for lenders are hard at work developing a similar tool for hospitals and other health care providers.

The project, dubbed "MedFICO" in some early press reports, will aid hospitals in assessing a patient's ability to pay their medical bills. But privacy advocates are worried that the notorious errors that have caused frequent criticism of the credit system will also cause trouble with any attempt to create a health-related risk score. They also fear that a low score might impact the quality of the health care that patients receive.

"If you had a poor score, you could be denied a hospital stay, for example," Dixon said."
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