alt.hn

6/13/2026 at 5:39:14 PM

PwC Report: AI Making Medical Bills Higher

 https://fortune.com/2026/06/12/ai-making-medical-bills-higher/

by karakoram

6/13/2026 at 7:28:36 PM

In short: AI-based tools tend to "upcode" cases and bill for more serious conditions, and more expensive treatment.

(This is not about AI costing too much.)

by nine_k

6/13/2026 at 8:39:57 PM

Seems to me shady providers were already highly skilled in upcoming without AI or any other technology…

by BobbyTables2

6/13/2026 at 8:47:17 PM

And we were able to able to kill people with projectiles before we had guns but ffs we don't use that to shut down every conversation about what guns can do.

by add-sub-mul-div

6/13/2026 at 7:30:04 PM

Gee. I wonder why that would be allowed to happen.

by happycube

6/13/2026 at 8:25:13 PM

No technology will make it cheaper for YOU, just improve margins for the chain of fleecing between provider and insurance. Demand for healthcare is inelastic like water or air, so they can charge whatever they want and you pay or die. AI will of course amplify your costs while improving their profits.

by fnordpiglet

6/13/2026 at 11:35:00 PM

What's terrifying is that European countries which had a chance to create universal healthcare during last decades, instead aimlessly drift toward "American model". When medical professionals see the money involved in America the temptation is simply too big. They basically monetize pain and fear of dying, no professional medical treatment is offered. Greed is such a universal and strong feeling.

by lifestyleguru

6/13/2026 at 8:56:48 PM

Insurance companies spend a lot of time on bill review and disputes over coding. They will develop an adversarial AI process to counteract this (assuming they haven't already). Race to the bottom and we all win

by phainopepla2

6/13/2026 at 9:29:23 PM

Why is medical even a for profit system?

by sharts

6/13/2026 at 10:14:54 PM

Just wait until we deploy the AI to optimise healthcare so that people die right at retirement age to maximise tax extraction and minimise healthcare usage

by HtmlProgrammer

6/13/2026 at 6:38:07 PM

This reads like slop.

The four emboldened headings that make up the whole article sound like they’re straight outta chatgpt:

* what happened

* the devil is in the billing details

* the big but

* bottom line

I’m not sure that I’ve ever read a Fortune article before so maybe this is just their style. But I doubt it.

by baliex

6/13/2026 at 7:25:09 PM

Peruse tvtropes.com enough, and you will realize that nothing is ever original, everything follows this or that long-established pattern, and complaining about that is another old trope.

More seriously, I like the fact that articles follow a particular scheme: the problem, exposition, conflict, contemplation. Much like a scientific article follows a similar established pattern.

And emotionally now: complaints about slop are often as schematic as the slop.

by nine_k

6/13/2026 at 8:47:27 PM

> And emotionally now: complaints about slop are often as schematic as the slop.

ah, the ol' "I'm rubber, you're glue" approach to solving problems. Worked so well for our billionairs and politicians, we should apply it to every interaction in our daily lives.

by ares623

6/13/2026 at 7:21:33 PM

They might have a skill or something that goes from report -> 'fortune article' - it honestly would not surprise me.

by zingababba

6/13/2026 at 7:11:43 PM

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by dgellow