{"id":13854,"date":"2026-06-11T13:37:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T13:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=13854"},"modified":"2026-06-11T13:37:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T13:37:20","slug":"ai-is-scaling-healthcare-costs-because-the-system-was-built-that-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=13854","title":{"rendered":"AI Is Scaling Healthcare Costs Because the System Was Built That Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2026\/06\/ai-is-scaling-healthcare-costs-because-the-system-was-built-that-way\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>AI is not driving healthcare cost inflation. It is exposing a system that has always been designed to reward it, and making that system more efficient. As long as reimbursement is tied to intensity, every technological advancement will move in the same direction: toward maximizing it. <\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2026\/06\/ai-is-scaling-healthcare-costs-because-the-system-was-built-that-way\/\">AI Is Scaling Healthcare Costs Because the System Was Built That Way<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/\">MedCity News<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI is not driving healthcare cost inflation. It is exposing a system that has always been designed to reward it, and making that system more efficient. As long as reimbursement is tied to intensity, every technological advancement will move in the same direction: toward maximizing it. The post AI Is Scaling Healthcare Costs Because the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13854"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}