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
4 comments:
Somewhat medically related - its been useful to take all the medications and supplements we take and throw them to AI.
Ask what sort of interactions or contradictions may exist.
Was an interesting report with useful & actionable information.
Long ago. Long LONG ago. We had to put our child in the hospital for about a week. Since we had no insurance I walked in with $2K and told them to let me know when they wanted more. A few weeks after he was discharged, they sent a bill for another $5000.00. My return letter stated "One of us was with the infant every second of his stay, and we recorded every procedure and supply used" Then I demanded an actual ITEMIZED bill to compare with our notes. Not long after that we got a letter saying the debt had been voided and we owed nothing.
Yes....AI could do a good job of reviewing the VERY complex medical bills people receive. And do so successfully. But you can bet the farm that hospitals will adapt and change their billing to counter this. There just too much money involved for them to just roll over.
Neither of the links works.
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