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RISINGER! retweeted
This is extremely dark
🦔The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association says insurers paid out nearly $1 billion more than usual from AI-assisted hospital documentation in 2024-2025. Hospitals use AI to scan records and find secondary diagnoses that human reviewers missed. More diagnoses means higher reimbursements. But treatment levels haven't gone up.
BCBSA's SVP of data science said AI is "identifying more billable conditions, not sicker patients." Insurers now deploy their own AI to deny those same claims. Patients pay for both through higher premiums.
My Take
This might be the most American healthcare story I've ever read. Hospitals bought AI to find more things to bill for. Insurers bought AI to deny those bills. The technology cost money on each end and the tab went straight to patients through higher premiums. A billion dollars moved and no one got any healthier. The only thing that changed was the size of the invoices.
Two sides of a trillion-dollar industry found a new tool to fight over the same pool of money and the person in the hospital bed pays for all of it. Premiums go up, denials go up, and the AI vendors collect from everyone. If you want to know who AI works for, stop reading the press releases and look at where the money goes. In healthcare it went straight into the billing department.
Hedgie🤗
RISINGER! retweeted
Houston Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair was told by an NFL official to remove the name of Wafaa Akila, an 8-year-old Palestinian girl killed in Gaza, from his eye black during the Texans’ Week 2 game or he would not be allowed to continue playing, according to a league source.
According to Reuters, Wafaa Akila was killed earlier this month by an Israeli airstrike.
nyti.ms/4yWHU5I
RISINGER! retweeted
Money out of politics.
Money in your pocket.
Medicare for All.
Michigan...
We won. I am so proud to be your Democratic nominee for US Senate. Let's win in November.
RISINGER! retweeted
Nothing like Election Night to make you feel alive and also like you're gonna die
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The #Bears and All-Pro OT Darnell Wright have agreed to terms on a fat new deal to make him one of the NFL’s highest paid, per me and @JFowlerESPN.
He gets a 4-year, $116M deal with $93M guaranteed done by his agents at @OctagonFootball. The former first rounder cashes in.
RISINGER! retweeted
Fuck the United States. 11 million people without electricity in an El Niño summer. This is beyond evil.
End the sanctions. End the embargo.
RISINGER! retweeted
It’s now been 1,000 days since the genocide in Gaza began. I’ll never forget the overwhelming feeling of dread and horror, knowing the hell Israel would unleash on October 8th. Their sadism surpassed my wildest expectations. Free Palestine, always and forever 💔🇵🇸
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Los Angeles is the second most populous city in the United States, yet has 15 council members. New York City has 51, and Chicago has 50. Furthermore, Los Angeles must switch its voting system from the Louisiana jungle primary to ranked-choice voting. 🧵👇🏿
🚨TOMORROW City Council may block some Charter reforms that WERE possibly headed for your Nov. ballot:
- Council expansion
- Ranked choice voting
- More LAPD oversight
📣Make your voice heard Fri 1pm at City Hall!
✍️Submit written comment:
lacouncilcomment.com CF 26-0489
RISINGER! retweeted
Remember when the @Cubs and @NHLBlackhawks social media teams used to stand on business and go all out for Pride Month and Pride Night with creative designs and promote charity campaigns? Now only silence. Bring that back.
