Insurers Claim AI Is Already Increasing Healthcare Costs
On 26 September 2026 TechCrunch reported that insurers claim AI is already increasing healthcare costs, after the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association linked $942 million in extra hospital spending to AI coding tools. This article lines up every insurer-side source, from PwC’s survey of 27 health plans to the Peterson Health Technology Institute and CMS Administrator Dr Mehmet Oz, then weighs them against the hospital rebuttal, insurers’ own AI and coding record, the real scale of the effect and the fixes on the table.
