Joseph B. Smith
Staff Practice Accountant, OneOncology · MAcc candidate, Belmont
Work
I'm a Staff Practice Accountant at OneOncology, working in practice revenue. I'm finishing a Master of Accountancy at Belmont University, then the CPA.
Outside work I build revenue tools under Branmoor: ClearRate reads hospital price-transparency files at scale, and payor-intelligence tracks payor behavior.
Essays on healthcare revenue will live here.
Writing
I write history books — money, credit, and financial institutions, from primary sources.
First in draft: The New York Clearing House, 1853–1913 — a private association of banks that issued emergency money through four panics, half a century before the Federal Reserve.
Code
- ClearRate — crawls hospital price-transparency files at scale and turns them into one queryable dataset. Runs under Branmoor; private for now.
- A personal ERP — a Workday-inspired system for one household: strict double-entry core, dimensional reporting, statement ingestion and reconciliation, fixed assets, debt, budgets, forecasts, KPIs. Local-first and private. The books balance.
- payor-intelligence — watching how payors behave, in the open.
- payor-proxy — a small proxy layer for payor-data work.
- This site — one hand-written HTML file with a working radio. The receipts are in the colophon.
Everything public is at github.com/josephbsmith.
Colophon
One HTML file. No framework, no build step, no analytics, no cookies — view source and you've seen the whole thing.
The background is a pseudo-3D coastline drawn on a ~320×180 canvas at 60 frames a second and upscaled with hard pixels. The road bends on a random walk; the scenery pans with accumulated heading, the way a real windshield does. The sun sets in real time — stay long enough and you're driving by moonlight. The dash clock keeps your time. Everything respects reduced-motion settings.
The radio is a two-and-a-quarter-hour station — K-Billy's Super Sounds of the 70's, assembled in GarageBand — streamed in range requests from object storage, so you only download what you actually listen to.
Built at a terminal with Claude Code riding shotgun. Hosted on Cloudflare Pages.