Blue Cross Blue Shield: AI-Assisted Medical Coding Added $1 Billion in Hospital Costs

Hospitals' growing use of AI to assign medical billing codes contributed close to $1 billion in extra costs for Blue Cross Blue Shield health plans between 2023 and 2025, according to a new analysis from the insurer's trade association. 70 percent of the additional cost involved additional diagnoses that did not change patients' actual care, according to the insurer, which describes the situation as a "clear disconnect between coding and treatment." The post Blue Cross Blue Shield: AI-Assisted Medical Coding Added $1 Billion in Hospital Costs appeared first on Breitbart.

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