Blue Cross/Blue Shield says AI is already driving up healthcare costs via hospital billing
andersonbcdefg · x · 2026-09-27
The Blue Cross/Blue Shield Association says AI is already driving up healthcare costs: hospitals are using the technology to find instances where they can bill more for the same level of care. A notable counterpoint to the usual narrative of AI cutting medical costs.
- Insurer association's claim: AI-assisted billing optimization raises charges without raising care quality
- Highlights a perverse use case of AI in healthcare economics
Related event: Hospitals' AI Billing Tactics Add Nearly $1 Billion in Costs: Blue Cross(2 posts)→
More from AGI Musings
- Will laziness eat agent productivity gains? X users debate market incentives — ZeeshanZiaML · 2026-09-28
- Dev argues Meta has a superintelligence vision for humans; OpenAI and Anthropic don't — willcb · 2026-09-28
- RL's limit: without a scoring function there's no signal, and 'learning' is inflated jargon — gerardsans · 2026-09-28
- OpenAI's Boris Power: 80-90% of research is focused on GPT-7, GPT-8 and beyond — kimmonismus · 2026-09-28
- Mark Pincus: If starting over, he'd rebuild social media with AI agents — PeterDiamandis · 2026-09-28
- VC admits he was wrong on 'token apocalypse' as Opus 5.5 points to too-cheap-to-meter AI — StewartalsopIII · 2026-09-28