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Those extra details can justify a higher severity (read: higher paying) code, even if the actual care a patient receives is the same as before.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=1329\">Roche and Nestl\u00e9 fear talent crunch as Switzerland puts population cap to the polls<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One Blue Cross Blue Shield analysis found that some hospitals saw the billing code for acute posthemorrhagic anemia in new mothers jump from 4% to 12.3% of maternity admissions between 2022 and 2025. The number of blood transfusions (a common treatment for this condition), meanwhile, barely budged. An audit of the hospital system with the steepest rise in this code found that\u00a0fewer than 20% of the cases actually met the clinical criteria\u00a0for a diagnosis. The rise in higher-intensity coding coincides with hospitals\u2019 growing use of AI for billing. According to BCBS, \u201ccoding intensity\u201d added $22 million to maternity spending at the hospitals studied in three years.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>AI is the report\u2019s top-ranked new pressure, but it\u2019s not the biggest driver of costs overall\u2014old standbys like labor and supply costs\u00a0still account for more of the increase, one of the report\u2019s authors told Healthcare Dive. And AI tools\u00a0could eventually push the other way, driving down costs by automating hospital administrative work or catching diagnoses earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=1327\">Ivanka called it captivating. Protesters call it destruction: What to know about the Kushner unrest in Albania<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0AI is often pitched as a way to optimize whatever industry it touches\u2014trimming waste and making systems faster and cheaper. 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As one health insurance exec put it: Companies \u201cwill take AI and say, \u2018How can I use this to further my self-interest?\u2019\u201d \u2014<em>WK<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=1325\">U.S. energy secretary says 7 million barrels of oil exiting Persian Gulf daily, but Chevron CEO rebuts the claim<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>This report was originally published by <\/em>Tech Brew.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI is one of five potential drivers of health costs climbing up to 9% in 2027, according to PwC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-care-service"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>AI was supposed to cut health care costs. 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