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Comment by xarope | Hacker News Reader

putting on my cynical hat, I feel this will just be another way for unscrupulous healthcare organizations to charge yet another service line item to patients/insurance...

  - X-Ray: $20
  - Radiologist Consultation: $200
  - Harrison.AI interpretation: $2000

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Yep, while justifying a reduction in force to radiology practices and keeping the extra salaries for the CEO and investors. Then when it inevitably kills someone, throw the AI under the bus, have a pre planned escape hatch so the AI company never has to pay any settlements. Have them sell their "assets" to the next third party.

Yeah, and the bill will come back adjusted to

  - X-Ray: $15
  - Radiologist Consultation: $125
  - Harrison.AI interpretation: $20

The cat and mouse between payer and system will never die given how it's set up. There's a disincentive to bill less than maximally, and therefore to not deny and adjust as much as possible. Somewhere in the middle patients get squished with the burden of copays and uncovered expenses that the hospital is now legally obligated to try and collect on or forfeit that portion for all future claims (and still have a copay on that new adjustment)

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