{"id":176822,"date":"2026-01-12T06:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T11:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/12\/when-artificial-intelligence-in-health-care-leads-to-bigger-bills\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T08:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T13:25:10","slug":"when-artificial-intelligence-in-health-care-leads-to-bigger-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/12\/when-artificial-intelligence-in-health-care-leads-to-bigger-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"When artificial intelligence in health care leads to bigger bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/story\/opinion\/contributors\/2026\/01\/12\/artificial-intelligence-health-care-costs-bigger-bills\/88136646007\/\">When artificial intelligence in health care leads to bigger bills<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/story\/opinion\/contributors\/2026\/01\/12\/artificial-intelligence-health-care-costs-bigger-bills\/88136646007\/\">https:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/story\/opinion\/contributors\/2026\/01\/12\/artificial-intelligence-health-care-costs-bigger-bills\/88136646007\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-12 06:05:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.tennessean.com\">www.tennessean.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) in medical billing and coding is leading to higher medical costs without improvements in patient care.<\/li>\n<li>The issue of inflated costs through AI in medical billing can lead to higher insurance premiums and out-of-pocket expenses for patients.<\/li>\n<li>AI tools can suggest higher diagnosis codes without a corresponding increment in actual treatment, creating a pattern known as \u201cdiscordant treatment.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Health insurers are reviewing claims with complex diagnostic coding to ensure reimbursements are aligned with actual treatment levels.<\/li>\n<li>Insurers are promoting price transparency and providing education to ensure that advanced billing tools improve care without inflating costs for patients.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When artificial intelligence in health care leads to bigger bills https:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/story\/opinion\/contributors\/2026\/01\/12\/artificial-intelligence-health-care-costs-bigger-bills\/88136646007\/ Publish Date: 2026-01-12 06:05:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":176823,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/gcdn\/presto\/2023\/02\/07\/USAT\/ea735194-eaa8-42c2-a6ff-14ae6e2e9a3b-GettyImages-1204436253.jpg?crop=2120,1193,x0,y107&width=2120&height=1193&format=pjpg&auto=webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-176822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176822"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176824,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176822\/revisions\/176824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}