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Kim Komando Daily Tech Update

How AI slashed a $195K hospital bill

02 Mar 2026

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Chapter 1: What shocking hospital bill did the man receive?

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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.

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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.

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Chapter 2: How did the AI chatbot help identify billing errors?

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Request an itemized bill, paste it into ChatGBT or Claude, and ask it to flag errors. Five minutes, no medical degree required. Get my free newsletter at GetKemp.com. Next up, a call for my weekend show, the Kim Commando Show. Enjoy! As we head into spring, I've been looking for fewer distractions and more focus during my day, whether I'm working, traveling, or just taking a break.

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Chapter 3: What significant reduction in hospital bill was achieved?

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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.

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Chapter 4: How can listeners challenge their own medical bills?

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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.

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Chapter 5: What tools can be used to flag errors in medical bills?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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You know, like when people abuse or misuse platforms to do things that they shouldn't do. So I'm always kind of on the lookout for what are the new technologies and what

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can be done with them both on the good side as an artist but then also on the bad side like how do people misuse this and what are the pitfalls and what are the strengths and weaknesses of all these new things so I've always kind of taken my art and anytime interesting new technology comes out I just jump on it and I start kind of plugging in my world you know my universe and just see what comes out the other side and a lot of times I find you know very good and interesting results and then I find things that are not so good and

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And I try to talk about those two equally because they're a mix. You know, we can't just separate one from the other. We can't have the good and not have the bad. They come together. So you have 40 albums, 120 books. What are you doing with them? Are you trying to make money with them?

Chapter 6: What AI technologies are being explored by artists and authors?

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Just real quick, real quick. With the 40 albums that you've put up, have any of them connected with people? Is there any one album that's gotten a lot of listens that you sat back and looked at the numbers and went, wow, that's surprising? No, I haven't had any huge commercial success with the music stuff. It's just been an experiment for me. The thing that's interesting for me is that

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the music artifacts kind of also start to interlink with the, like the narrative books and, and there's like references between all those worlds. So I think for me, it might be that it happens down the road, you know, that, that someone discovers one of those things and it, it suddenly clicks for them. And then they start to kind of, jump into the different artifacts.

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I've seen with my books, for example, where because I'm selling it on a website where I can kind of track a little bit who buys it, or I can at least see if one person is buying more than one because I get an email address. I've had one person come back and buy 40 different books out of 125. So there's your audience right there. Yeah, just find a billion of those and you'll be super rich.

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But you know what, Tim, it's a great experiment. It's interesting. And if you have any interest in creating any type of music or e-books, use Sono. You can use any of the AI chatbots. And in case you want to look up Tim, his last name is Boucher. Tim Boucher. And Tim, if you ever decide to turn those 120 books into 120 movies, you already have the soundtracks. That's true. So we're already made.

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