--- title: Insurers claim AI is already increasing healthcare costs description: Blue Cross Blue Shield Association's analysis found that hospitals' use of AI tools during insurance claims submission led to an additional $942 million in... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/insurers-claim-ai-is-already-increasing-healthcare-costs-wjxxuuylt twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Insurers claim AI is already increasing healthcare costs | daily.dev og:description: Blue Cross Blue Shield Association's analysis found that hospitals' use of AI tools during insurance claims submission led to an additional $942 million in... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/insurers-claim-ai-is-already-increasing-healthcare-costs-wjxxuuylt og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/WjXXUUyLT.png og:image:alt: Insurers claim AI is already increasing healthcare costs og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Insurers claim AI is already increasing healthcare costs **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Blue Cross Blue Shield Association's analysis found that hospitals' use of AI tools during insurance claims submission led to an additional $942 million in healthcare spending over two years, with a sharp rise in patients documented as having complex conditions but no corresponding change in actual care delivered. The New York Times cited this as part of a broader trend of AI increasing healthcare costs as both hospitals and insurers deploy AI in billing disputes. Abridge founder Dr. Shiv Rao warned of a potential dystopian future of 'bots fighting bots,' while BCBSA's Luke Chalker described the situation as a one-sided battle favoring hospitals over insurers. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How much extra healthcare spending did Blue Cross Blue Shield attribute to hospitals' use of AI coding tools? Blue Cross Blue Shield Association's analysis attributed an additional $942 million in healthcare spending over a two-year period to hospitals' use of AI tools when submitting insurance claims. The analysis found a sharp increase in patients documented as having complex conditions, but no corresponding change in the actual care delivered, suggesting AI-assisted coding was inflating billed complexity rather than reflecting real treatment changes. _daily.dev surfaces reporting like this for developers building or evaluating AI tools in regulated industries like healthcare._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Health-care AI is here. 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