Hospital AI costs: reading the $942M BCBS claim
Blue Cross Blue Shield says hospital AI tools added $942 million in spending over two years. Does that prove AI raises costs? The position here is no. The comparison likely reflects which hospitals adopt first, large academic and urban systems already running expensive case mixes, and the risk adjustment model is not published. The insurer also has a clear incentive, since every hospital dollar is one it pays. You come away able to separate correlation from cause in claims data, explain incidental detection and the follow-up cascade of extra CT scans and biopsies, weigh Google and OpenAI…
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