Blue Cross Blue Shield says hospitals’ AI is driving up medical costs
Blue Cross Blue Shield says hospitals are using AI to find secondary diagnoses and move patients into higher reimbursement categories. Yahoo Finance Host Julie Hyman, Breaking Business News Reporter Jake Conley and Senior Autos Reporter Pras Subramanian debate whether that’s overbilling or doctors catching up on care they undercharged for, what it means for insurance premiums, and what else goes wrong when AI agents are put in charge, from an Apollo note on deposit-chasing bank runs to a Meta Muse Marketplace deal its user never knew about.
00:00 Blue Cross Blue Shield study: Hospital AI and higher medical costs
00:57 Overbilling, or catching up on undercharged care?
01:34 Rising premiums and the agentic age
02:18 Could AI agents cause a bank run?
02:46 A Meta Muse Marketplace deal gone wrong
03:25 Is AI making things more expensive, not cheaper?
03:48 Restaurants flooded with AI ghost bookings
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