#68 - When AI Makes Care More Expensive
What if one of AI’s biggest impacts on healthcare isn’t a miracle diagnosis, but a bigger bill? We follow a surprisingly direct path from “helpful automation” to higher prices: AI scribes produce richer clinical documentation, and AI-assisted medical coding turns that extra detail into higher billed complexity. The care may look identical in the exam room, but the coded version of the visit can level up, which changes reimbursement and ripples outward into premiums and out-of-pocket costs.
We start with the day-to-day reality of clinical notes: history taking, exam findings, assessment and…
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