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Why I built BillComb
Two years ago an ER visit left me with a $6,214 hospital bill. It looked official, itemized, and final. It was none of those things.
I'm a data engineer. My work is reading messy records other people generate and finding the places they don't add up - duplicated rows, totals that don't reconcile, the same thing billed twice under two different codes. So when that bill arrived, I did what I do all day: I asked for the raw data. Not the summary statement with one big number - the itemized bill, every line.
It took six weekends. I learned what a CPT code is, which charges are illegal to bill a patient after an in-network visit, how to catch the same lab run charged twice, and how a "facility fee" can quietly double a number. By the end the $6,214 was $1,900. Nothing about that required a lawyer or a medical degree. It required patience, a few reference tables, and someone willing to read every line.
Most people don't have six weekends. That's the whole problem. The information that gets a bill corrected exists - it's just scattered across statutes, billing manuals, and benchmark rates that nobody hands you while you're staring at a number you can't pay. BillComb is those six weekends turned into software: it reads your itemized bill the way I learned to, and hands you the report and the letter to send yourself.
I built it deliberately small and deliberately honest. Flat fees, never a cut of what you save. Your documents are deleted after your case closes, never sold, and never used to train models. The free scan tells you the truth - how many red flags, and roughly how much is at stake - before you pay a cent. If BillComb is wrong, you get a full refund without asking.
“I'm not promising to fight your insurer for you. I'm handing you the same read I'd do for myself, and the exact words to send. The rest is a stamp.”- Vivek Padiaengineer, builder of BillComb
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