Insurers claim AI is already increasing healthcare costs

Insurers pay hospitals according to billing codes, and those codes depend on how a patient's conditions are written up in the record. A Blue Cross Blue Shield Association analysis says hospitals using AI tools on claims recorded far more patients as having complex conditions, adding $942 million in spending over two years with no sign that the care itself changed.

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