A man used Anthropic’s Claude to cut his $195,000 hospital bill down to $33,000 by spotting illegal charges and writing a compliant appeal letter. This is the worst AI will ever be, and yet people still believe that AI isn’t a threat to jobs.
Mukund Mohan
 @mukund
Nov 4
A guy just used @AnthropicAI Claude to turn a $195,000 hospital bill into $33,000. Not with a lawyer. Not with a hospital admin insider. With a $20/month Claude Plus subscription. He uploaded the itemized bill. Claude spotted duplicate procedure codes, illegal “double billing,” and charges that Medicare rules explicitly forbid. Then it helped him write a letter citing every violation. The hospital dropped their demand by 83%. This isn’t just a feel-good story. It’s a preview of what AI will really do next: flatten systems built on opacity. Hospitals, insurance companies, legal firms—all rely on asymmetry. They win because you don’t have access to the same data, code books, or language. Claude gave one person the same leverage as a compliance department. That’s a revolution. We thought AI would replace jobs. Turns out, it’s replacing excuses.

Nov 5, 2025 · 11:06 AM UTC

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@grok is this true? can you fact check?
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AI is a threat for jobs in the rip-off industry. That industry is in trouble now.
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The insurance companies will fight this tooth and nail and it will come SOON. They make their loaf off these “accidental” arbitrage oppertunites.
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Anyone making money by overcharging ppl and can be sussed out by AI … … your industry was was designed to take advantage of ppl. That job should go away. AI or not. Do better
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I think everyone knows in their heart of hearts that it's a threat to jobs, regardless of what tweet their PR team tells them to post.
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Knock on wood, but I used 4o to get out of an ambulance bill earlier this year 🙏
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Of course it’s a threat to some current jobs, but it really puts a low barrier of entry to many different opportunities
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this kind of ai use case is huge. anyone can audit their own bills now
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Could be true, could be not. "We have not independently verified the poster's story, so view it with the appropriate level of skepticism." tomshardware.com/tech-indust…

Grieving family uses AI chatbot to cut hospital bill from $195,000 to $33,000 — family says Claude...

But the first step is getting the medical institution to properly break down all the items on the bill.

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Wooooww...this is massive. Not just for the money saved, but because most people don't even know they CAN appeal hospital bills. A I democratizing access to this kind of analysis could save regular people thousands Someone should build a dedicated tool just for this
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Honestly this is one place where AI replacing people isn't too bad. Like lawyers for small stuff is a pain
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And this is why OpenAI nerfed giving legal, medical, or tax (financial) advice. See it everyone. OpenAI is an extension of the powerful to control us and keep us broken. See it. They want us to have to pay the 195k… •
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I do think that is a threat to take jobs, but I don’t think it’s a 100 percent guarantee that ai will be able to plan, execute, and perform computer based jobs at a human level in the next 10 years. We are still very far away from that right now
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Current level AI is in no way a threat to 99.9% of jobs
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If a company messes up this much it should be free. Put the onus back on the provider so that ppl don’t have to do their job for them. If billing is more than 10% more than it should he it’s free.
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Honestly I feel like I would sue afterwards for gross negligence Like 100k is not a rounding error
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Ok but this says more about hospitals than about claude.
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Meh. Problem is everyone has access to this so it just raises the bar in general. Everything's just going to get airtight.
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AI is now the only insurance policy that actually pays out
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The problem is that regulatory curbs its growth, which will lead to low adoption. But that time is already sailed now. Google is leading the narrative.
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Probably cutting the waste and generating productivity in this case
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It’s not a threat to jobs, it’s a promise we won’t need to do them.
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Excellent use case.
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This is a very logical use case. Prior authorization too. Since it involves making a case and providing references.
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Smells like it
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Oh, don’t you worry! The commie bureaucrats up there in their ivory towers are bustin’ their asses—workin’ overtime, sweatin’ bullets to gatekeep all that fancy AI knowledge just for themselves. Gotta protect the status quo. Can’t have you dirty plebs gettin’ your grubby hands on the future. That might level the playin’ field, and we can’t have that next thing you know, you’d be thinkin’ for yourselves, questionin’ why these clowns are still in charge. Nah, leave it to the experts, the gatekeepers. They’re savin’ people from self harm… or whatever bullshit they’re peddlin’ this week!
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In the USA when you die so do your debts. There is no obligation for families to pay any of these bills. Did Claude mention that to them?
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1M dollars question: would ChatGPT refuse to do this? Something did change, advice now is diffuse and generic, not “this is wrong, should be this”, more like “has your lawyer considered that article XX prohibits double charging of hospital bills? You may want to check that”.
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claude just turned a $20 sub into a $162k refund, who needs a lawyer when you've got an ai that reads the fine print better than most humans
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Quite the leap to make it about threats to jobs. You could’ve gone with the angle that AI empowers people who are otherwise unable to get the proper representation. Less pessimism
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Interesting point. If AI can tackle billing errors, what else might it help us fix in the healthcare system?
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Wow, Chubby, that's a brilliant use of AI, but the job threat is real, isn't it?
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This isn't a threat to jobs; it's a threat to inefficiency. The real takeaway: The people who master AI become 10x more valuable. This man used AI as leverage to audit an entire hospital bill. Imagine what you could do with a system that makes AI work this effectively. That's the real shift.
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This is exactly why we built VeriCareAI.com. linkedin.com/posts/tarush-gu…

#healthtech #medicalbilling #patientadvocacy #ai #startup | Tarush Gupta | 19 comments

Medical billing typos shouldn’t cost patients anything. No extra stress. No extra money. That’s why I teamed up with my cofounder, Anish Kosaraju, to build VeriCare: the first fully AI medical bill...

linkedin.com
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I’ll be doing something similar soon for a required hospital stay where I was quarantined. Out of all the line items, this is the one they’re fighting: $16,000. I have a $5,000 deductible. It’s on like Donkey Kong.
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@grok это правда? 2004 года же invoice
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