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 4, 2025 · 11:56 PM UTC

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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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We saw exactly the same thing when @elonmusk bludgeoned congress into converting a 1000+ page omnibus bill into a 7pg document. AI and a purposeful human agent can now successfully rebuke the blob.
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Most insured ppl have a max out of pocket of like 10k. No need to do what he did.
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Most is not all.
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Wait why aren’t the hospitals doing this?
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Amazing. If True.
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Verified true.
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Medicare and Medicaid should be using this.
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That’s perfect Fuck them
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Will the hospital get in trouble for fraud?
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@truthsignal_ai review this
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I did something similar with ChatGPT the other day to obtain communication from a "complaint" to the city about my property. I didn't know the laws or the process, and there is zero chance I would have gone through the effort to find out. It looked everything up for me, wrote the email (citing codes/laws), and I got my response and information within the 10-day required response time. While emails and names were redacted, there was enough content for me to pinpoint who the complaints were coming from. Then I used ChatGPT to deduce that the retaining wall they recently put up required a permit. We wrote an email to the city to find out it had one.... nope. Now I get my reenge on said neighbor that's been making my life hell for 2 years :-)
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Who the hell pays medical bills over $1000 anymore? I'm not paying just out of principle. Ever looked at the itemized billing? They are just throwing codes in there to rack up the total. Saw a dermatologist for like 8 mins for my kid and charges were over $1000 even after insurance; I had to pay $120.
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Back when my daughter was born 20+ years ago, I caught a billing discrepancy that put thousands back into my pocket. The hospital labeled her delivery as "complex" but the delivering physician labeled it "routine". The difference between those two categories is staggering. The hospital quickly changed their billing code once I raised a red flag. I guarantee they were labeling all deliveries as *complex* and no one ever said anything.
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I gave my son's 2002 appendectomy hospital bill to my neighbor, an RN, and she flagged 50% of total as errors and double billing. Cost: a cup of coffee. Went from $30K to $15K and then I negotiated 'cash' payment for some of the side-hustle expenses such as CAT scans, and anesticist fee, which rediced those expenses by 50%.
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This is why bubble chatter doesn’t really hit. Like it or not, this tech — still in a very early form — has enormous utility for people
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Chatgpt after they implemented their new policies: “sorry I can’t help with health or financial advice. The best course of action is to pay your bill in full”
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Cool story. I had a bill for $13,526. I read my bill, spent 15 minutes with the office manager at the hospital, we agreed I was over charged by 75%. She gave me an 80% discount off the bill. And I saved myself $20 and a waste of time waiting for AI to solve my problem.
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Honestly, every time a story like this comes out, it’s just another reminder that hospitals have been running a racket for decades. Most people don’t realize how much of the “system” is literally built on nobody looking too closely at the numbers. They prey on people being tired, sick, and uninformed. The fact a chatbot can pick apart a $195k bill in seconds means every line on those invoices was always negotiable. It wasn’t “medicine” or “procedure codes.” It was an outrageously expensive game of “how much can we get away with?” Hospitals are supposed to save lives, not destroy them financially. AI didn’t suddenly make the system unfair. It just pulled the mask off. This isn’t disruption. It’s justice in a place that’s been desperate for it.
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This is a major reason why AI is so useful and should be learned by nearly everyone. Incredibly helpful tool. Think of how many people would have just accepted that ridiculous bill.
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I think this is great, but I will say that hospitals etc are more error prone than sneaky. There is not likely any ill intent. Just poorly trained staff....
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AI just handed everyday people the keys to dismantle opaque empires, turning a massive hospital bill into pocket change without insiders or lawyers. This is the real disruption: power to the informed.
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A few healthcare subs and you are set get yourself a direct primary care doc sub for $50/mo Or online refills like do for my patients at $10/mo And pair that with 1) cost plus for dirt cheap home delivery on meds 2) health share plan to cover emergencies And use your Claude tokens for fun projects instead
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I did same with $573 Quest bill and turned it into $8 with 5 minutes in Chat GPT and one chat with my insurance company and one phone call to Quest. The medical billing system is waiting for someone to come fix it. So much fat.
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@donotpay 👀
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Talk to me after it turns the bill to $0, after threatening to expose their practices and take legal action.
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This is what I’ve been saying about healthcare costs: AI can easily address the administrative and processing cost that run ~30-40% . If you remove larger swaths of ppl accessing it for free (illegally), and use AI to better diagnose, direct, triage patients = huge improvement
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its not enough to simply "pay less" you must refuse to pay at all and sue the hospital into oblivion also dont use ai to write posts...
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Wait for it, regulation will ban AI from processing medical info citing safety and ‘privacy’
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So when is this program going to be installed in state and federal offices responsible for paying the bills that are submitted????
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