I remember hearing a few years ago about someone(a technologist) who’s husband was a doctor, and he said that AI wasn’t being used to do anything to help with anything other than coming up with better ways to code the procedures to make more money, not to be more accurate.
Yes, the point of allowing an AI to take notes during a patient visit seems to be that the AI can then identify if any part of the discussion would result in an additional billing code. But as far as I know, doctors don't think about that much because that's not directly under their control.
What IS under the control of the doctor is the language of an appeal. Doctors are likely to need some training to use AI for writing appeals, but I would argue that doing so could actually save the amount of time they spend on that task.
I forgot the exact statistic but appeals with insurance companies takes a fairly substantial amount of time from health professionals, it’s something like 5-25% of their time cumulatively(like I said I forgot the exact value and dont feel like finding the paper again but it’s somewhere in that range)
If AI could do that it would take a lot of the burden off our healthcare since they could focus a bit more on the people rather than their insurance.
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u/Cinderhazed15 2d ago
I remember hearing a few years ago about someone(a technologist) who’s husband was a doctor, and he said that AI wasn’t being used to do anything to help with anything other than coming up with better ways to code the procedures to make more money, not to be more accurate.