But there were two cases where we felt like we needed to jump in. One is provider directory. So people have been talking about this for a very long time. There are over 5,000 provider directories in the U.S. providers answer between 20 and 60 requests every month to validate their information. Yet none of the directories are accurate and not very helpful. So everyone starts with CMS and pes, the NPI database, and then they go try to clean it up themselves and try to fix this and maintain it. (14:17–14:25)
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