{"id":194046,"date":"2026-03-09T04:32:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T08:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/blue-cross-blue-shield-study-says-ai-upcoding-is-driving-up-prices\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T04:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T08:50:13","slug":"blue-cross-blue-shield-study-says-ai-upcoding-is-driving-up-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/blue-cross-blue-shield-study-says-ai-upcoding-is-driving-up-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Cross Blue Shield study says AI upcoding is driving up prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/03\/09\/bcbs-study-hospitals-use-ai-upcoding-drive-up-prices\/\">Blue Cross Blue Shield study says AI upcoding is driving up prices<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/03\/09\/bcbs-study-hospitals-use-ai-upcoding-drive-up-prices\/\">https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/03\/09\/bcbs-study-hospitals-use-ai-upcoding-drive-up-prices\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-09 04:32:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.statnews.com\">www.statnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Health insurers have recently raised concerns over hospitals using AI for medical coding and billing, claiming it increases health care costs.<\/li>\n<li>Insurers argue that this practice negatively impacts their financial performance and are implementing measures to counteract it and reduce payments to doctors for unjustified higher billing.<\/li>\n<li>Prior to a new report, there was no publicly available evidence that AI coding leads to overbilling by hospitals.<\/li>\n<li>A recent report from a data analysis firm linked to Blue Cross Blue Shield Association provides the first evidence suggesting AI-driven coding might be increasing expenses, potentially contributing to $663 million in additional inpatient spending.<\/li>\n<li>The full article, which includes detailed analysis and insights, is exclusive to STAT+ subscribers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Cross Blue Shield study says AI upcoding is driving up prices https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/03\/09\/bcbs-study-hospitals-use-ai-upcoding-drive-up-prices\/ Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":194047,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/AdobeStock_285955283-1024x576.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194046"}],"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=194046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194048,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194046\/revisions\/194048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}