BCBS Report: AI Driving Hospital Upcoding, Adding $22M to Maternity Costs Alone

A BCBS analysis found that hospitals using AI for clinical documentation are billing at higher acuity levels than patient care warrants. The increase of acute posthemorrhagic anemia coding alone added $22 million to maternity admission costs at analyzed hospitals in one year. Payers are now scrutinizing AI-assisted billing more aggressively.