PwC Report: AI Making Medical Bills Higher

PwC Report: AI Making Medical Bills Higher(fortune.com)

36 points by karakoram 3 hours ago | 7 comments

nine_k 1 hour ago |

In short: AI-based tools tend to "upcode" cases and bill for more serious conditions, and more expensive treatment.

(This is not about AI costing too much.)

BobbyTables2 15 minutes ago | |

Seems to me shady providers were already highly skilled in upcoming without AI or any other technology…

add-sub-mul-div 8 minutes ago | | |

And we were able to able to kill people with projectiles before we had guns but ffs we don't use that to shut down every conversation about what guns can do.

happycube 1 hour ago | |

Gee. I wonder why that would be allowed to happen.

karakoram 3 hours ago |

https://archive.md/17Bsx

baliex 2 hours ago |

This reads like slop.

The four emboldened headings that make up the whole article sound like they’re straight outta chatgpt:

* what happened

* the devil is in the billing details

* the big but

* bottom line

I’m not sure that I’ve ever read a Fortune article before so maybe this is just their style. But I doubt it.

simonw 1 hour ago | |

This story was republished by Fortune from a partnership with Tech Brew: https://www.techbrew.com/stories/ai-healthcare-bills-increas...

If you look at other stories by the same author, such as this one https://www.techbrew.com/stories/openai-token-price-wars-ant... - the "TL;DR", "What happened", "Bottom line" format is consistent across their work. It looks to me like a style guide thing, not necessarily something introduced by LLMs.

nine_k 1 hour ago | |

Peruse tvtropes.com enough, and you will realize that nothing is ever original, everything follows this or that long-established pattern, and complaining about that is another old trope.

More seriously, I like the fact that articles follow a particular scheme: the problem, exposition, conflict, contemplation. Much like a scientific article follows a similar established pattern.

And emotionally now: complaints about slop are often as schematic as the slop.

ares623 8 minutes ago | | |

> And emotionally now: complaints about slop are often as schematic as the slop.

ah, the ol' "I'm rubber, you're glue" approach to solving problems. Worked so well for our billionairs and politicians, we should apply it to every interaction in our daily lives.

zingababba 1 hour ago | |

They might have a skill or something that goes from report -> 'fortune article' - it honestly would not surprise me.