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AI is now a health care issue: AI drove nearly $1 billion in extra health care costs over just 2 years – with no evidence patients got any different – or any better – care

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1433949/ai-is-now-a-health-care-issue-ai-drove-nearly-1-billion-in-extra-health-care-costs-over

www.bcbs.com/about-us/association-news/bcbsa-analysis-ai-coding-tools-affects-healthcare-costs

Replying to @⁨beep@piefed.world⁩

I hate AI, but this is just sour grapes from an insurance company. Medical providers and insurance companies are in a constant battle over payment with insurance companies trying ever more creative ways to deny payment and services (which I think anyone who has been a patient in the US can vouch for). This article claims that the providers are using AI guidance to justify better compensation from the insurance companies. If the compensation to providers for the same medical procedure didn’t keep dropping down every year, this arms race wouldn’t need to exist. What we really need is a purge of non-clinical hospital administrators (whose numbers have exploded over the past 2 decades) and of insurance personel with multi-million dollar salaries.

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