AI slashes a $195K hospital bill
episodePreviously titled “How AI slashed a $195K hospital bill” — renamed by the publisher on Aug 3, 2026
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What shocking hospital bill did the man receive?
A man got a hospital bill for $195,000, four hours of emergency care. His sister-in-law was ready to just pay it. He said, wait. So he took the itemized bill, pasted it into an AI chatbot, and asked it to check for errors. Within minutes, the AI found duplicate charges, services that never happened, and supply costs marked up 2,300% above Medicare rates. He wrote a letter citing every single violation. The hospital dropped the bill to $33,000. That's an 83% reduction. And get this, up to 80% of all medical bills contain errors, and fewer than 1% of us ever challenge them. You can do this right now.
How did the AI chatbot help identify billing errors?
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What significant reduction in hospital bill was achieved?
Tim in beautiful Canada. Hello there, Tim. So I understand that you did an AI experiment. Is that right? Yes. Yes, that's right. Several, but yeah. Several. So tell us what you did, because it involved what you do. You made like 40 albums in a month and 125 e-books and... Right.
How can listeners challenge their own medical bills?
So that's the most recent one is the albums. I used a program called Suno, which is an AI audio generator where you type in what you want.
What tools can be used to flag errors in medical bills?
You know, you describe in a prompt the type of music you want, and you can enter lyrics or, you know, style information, and then you wait a few seconds and it generates some alternatives. So I use that, and I just tried to see, like, how far I could push the technology and what I could – kind of create as a single artist within a short, defined span of time. And what I was able to come up with was 40 full-length albums in a month. Were they good? I think that some of them are highly listenable. Of course, a lot of it is instrumental music. So when you listen to it, you don't immediately know, oh, this is AI because... You know, there's not a human voice in all of them. That's kind of a giveaway. And some of it is interesting.
You know, like I've come back to it months later and listened through on random doing work and other stuff. And I've been like, oh, this is cool. Like, you know, almost when I hear it, I'm like, who made this, you know? And it's the same thing that I kind of tried to do with books before that. I spent a year kind of working on 125 e-books that they take place in kind of like a parallel universe where AIs have basically taken over human society, which is not such a stretch. No. for each book they kind of like interlink to the other books so like if you start reading one book and you find a topic that you find interesting you can kind of click through and then go check out that other book and then kind of hop around um throughout the narrative universe like a sort of a choose your own adventure kind of story so so what
prompted, no pun intended, for you to do all this. That was a good joke. Thank you. Well, so I've just been, you know, I've had kind of two strands in my life. One is working as an artist and a musician and an author for a really long time on my own. And the other is working in technology for platforms and doing things like content moderation and working in policy and working in kind of the the side of technology where things can go wrong. You know, like when people abuse or misuse platforms to do things that they shouldn't do.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What shocking hospital bill did the man receive?
0:00–0:40
2
How did the AI chatbot help identify billing errors?
0:40–1:36
3
What significant reduction in hospital bill was achieved?
1:36–2:21
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How can listeners challenge their own medical bills?
2:21–2:31
5
What tools can be used to flag errors in medical bills?
2:31–10:05
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What AI technologies are being explored by artists and authors?
10:05–11:54