{"id":218261,"date":"2026-05-21T17:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T21:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/did-a-bot-deny-your-claim-nc-lawmakers-want-to-regulate-ai-in-health-insurance-wral-com\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T17:30:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T21:30:14","slug":"did-a-bot-deny-your-claim-nc-lawmakers-want-to-regulate-ai-in-health-insurance-wral-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/did-a-bot-deny-your-claim-nc-lawmakers-want-to-regulate-ai-in-health-insurance-wral-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Did a bot deny your claim? NC lawmakers want to regulate AI in health insurance :: WRAL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/nccapitol\/north-carolina-want-regulations-artificial-intelligence-health-insurance-may-2026\/\">Did a bot deny your claim? NC lawmakers want to regulate AI in health insurance :: WRAL.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/nccapitol\/north-carolina-want-regulations-artificial-intelligence-health-insurance-may-2026\/\">https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/nccapitol\/north-carolina-want-regulations-artificial-intelligence-health-insurance-may-2026\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-21 17:12:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.wral.com\">www.wral.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>North Carolina Republican lawmakers are proposing House Bill 565 to limit artificial intelligence (AI) use in healthcare, aiming to prevent increased bills and denied claims.<\/li>\n<li>The bill seeks to prohibit insurers from using AI as the sole basis for denying claims, ensuring human involvement in those decisions.<\/li>\n<li>The legislation aims to address &#8220;upcoding,&#8221; a practice where AI could potentially recommend higher billing codes unintentionally, inflating profits for providers and increasing overall healthcare costs.<\/li>\n<li>Concern is also raised about potential racial biases in AI algorithms, highlighting the need for human oversight in medical decisions.<\/li>\n<li>While AI use in healthcare is rapidly expanding nationwide, the North Carolina Healthcare Association expresses concern that the bill could limit beneficial technology use in patient care.<\/li>\n<li>The bill reflects a broader national movement to retain human involvement in healthcare and insurance billing decisions amidst AI&#8217;s rise.<\/li>\n<li>Debates highlight the need for balance, enforceability, and stakeholder involvement in shaping AI legislation in healthcare.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did a bot deny your claim? NC lawmakers want to regulate AI in health insurance&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":218263,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.wral.com\/aec620bb-8a59-49a2-abb3-3e00d033bd2c?w=1200&h=630","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-218261","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\/218261"}],"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=218261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218264,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218261\/revisions\/218264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}