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S1 Ep185: Who gets paid when the AI does the work? with Caroline Pearson of the Peterson Health Technology Institute
A clinical artificial intelligence (AI) tool costs little to run and can be billed many times over, while fee-for-service rates are set on the clinician time and effort a service is expected to take. Caroline Pearson says that math is why AI could push health care costs up rather than down, and that remote patient monitoring already shows what it looks like.
Medical Economics Managing Editor Todd Shryock sat down with Pearson, executive director of the Peterson Health Technology Institute, a nonprofit that evaluates the clinical and economic value of emerging health technologies.
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