{"id":221952,"date":"2026-05-28T15:47:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T19:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/nc-senate-looks-to-restrict-ai-in-healthcare-billing-insurance\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T15:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T19:55:10","slug":"nc-senate-looks-to-restrict-ai-in-healthcare-billing-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/nc-senate-looks-to-restrict-ai-in-healthcare-billing-insurance\/","title":{"rendered":"NC Senate looks to restrict AI in healthcare billing, insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wunc.org\/politics\/2026-05-28\/nc-senate-restrict-ai-healthcare-billing-insurance\">NC Senate looks to restrict AI in healthcare billing, insurance<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wunc.org\/politics\/2026-05-28\/nc-senate-restrict-ai-healthcare-billing-insurance\">https:\/\/www.wunc.org\/politics\/2026-05-28\/nc-senate-restrict-ai-healthcare-billing-insurance<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-28 15:47:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.wunc.org\">www.wunc.org<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sen. Amy Galey is sponsoring a bill (House Bill 565) to regulate the use of AI in healthcare billing and insurance to prevent increased costs and denied claims.<\/li>\n<li>Galey&#8217;s proposed legislation aims to impose guardrails for both insurance companies and healthcare providers concerning AI-related billing decisions.<\/li>\n<li>The bill intends to ban insurers from denying coverage for treatments based solely on AI reviews and would prevent providers from using AI to upcode services without human approval.<\/li>\n<li>There are concerns that AI is being programmed to increase billing for expensive services without improving patient outcomes, thereby raising overall healthcare costs.<\/li>\n<li>Hospitals and the N.C. Healthcare Association have voiced concerns, suggesting AI can streamline administrative tasks, allowing more time for patient care.<\/li>\n<li>The bill is set for its first Senate committee approval next week following a recent committee hearing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NC Senate looks to restrict AI in healthcare billing, insurance https:\/\/www.wunc.org\/politics\/2026-05-28\/nc-senate-restrict-ai-healthcare-billing-insurance Publish Date: 2026-05-28 15:47:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":221954,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/b3a8e92\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/1920x1008+0+136\/resize\/1200x630!\/quality\/90\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fdd%2Fad%2F9b92691c40cd983f84ff17a1b373%2Fap23032627132853.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221952","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\/221952"}],"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=221952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221956,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221952\/revisions\/221956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}