For all the doom-and-gloom prophecies about what artificial intelligence (AI) will do to the job market and the business sector, AI does have some very useful applications for the average American. Here's one.
Last summer, a man’s brother-in-law suffered a fatal heart attack. The hospital bill for four hours of emergency care: $195,628.
The man’s sister-in-law was ready to pay it. He asked her to wait. He requested an itemized bill with CPT codes, the universal billing codes hospitals use, and fed the whole thing into Claude, an AI chatbot.
Within minutes, Claude found duplicate charges, services billed as "inpatient" even though the patient was never admitted, supply costs inflated by 500% to 2,300% above Medicare rates and charges for procedures that never happened. He cross-checked with ChatGPT. Both AIs agreed. He wrote a six-page letter citing every violation by name.
The hospital dropped the bill to $33,000. An 83% reduction. Zero medical training. A $20 app.
There's more at the link. Highly recommended reading for anyone expecting or receiving big medical bills.
I've used this myself over the past year or so. As regular readers will know, I've been dealing with multiple medical issues for some time, including the removal of a kidney and forthcoming major spinal surgery for which extensive (and intensive) preliminary examinations and tests have been required. I've had to spend over $30,000 in doing so. However, once I started analyzing what I was being charged by using online AI tools, I was able to secure some dramatic reductions in the billing. I reckon I've saved five figures worth of money already, and expect to save a lot more by doing the same thing in future.
I recommend that any reader expecting (or paying) large medical bills should read the whole article referenced above, then try its recommendations for yourself. You may be very pleasantly surprised by how much you save.
Peter
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