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Source: The New York Times

Insurers are attributing a billion dollars in unexpected hospital expenses to AI-driven claim inflation, where expanded data collection and algorithmic processing enable more aggressive billing. Hospitals deploy AI to maximize revenue capture while insurers lack comparable tools to challenge claim accuracy at scale, creating an information asymmetry that strains insurance pricing models. How insurers respond—absorbing losses, raising premiums, or denying claims more aggressively—will determine the next phase of hospital-insurer negotiations and may accelerate demands for AI auditability in healthcare transactions.