{"id":14592,"date":"2026-07-17T20:17:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T20:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=14592"},"modified":"2026-07-17T20:17:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T20:17:37","slug":"the-bot-vs-bot-dynamic-between-providers-payers-is-driving-up-costs-for-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=14592","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018Bot Vs. Bot\u2019 Dynamic Between Providers &amp; Payers Is Driving Up Costs for Everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2026\/07\/healthcare-ai-hss\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>HSS chief digital and information officer Ashis Barad, who has worked on both the payer and provider sides of healthcare AI, thinks the industry\u2019s growing \u201cbot vs. bot\u201d battle over prior authorizations and appeals is driving costs up. To him, the real fix lies in providers and payers sharing data to build more personalized care pathways.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2026\/07\/healthcare-ai-hss\/\">The \u2018Bot Vs. Bot\u2019 Dynamic Between Providers &amp; Payers Is Driving Up Costs for Everyone<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/\">MedCity News<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HSS chief digital and information officer Ashis Barad, who has worked on both the payer and provider sides of healthcare AI, thinks the industry\u2019s growing \u201cbot vs. bot\u201d battle over prior authorizations and appeals is driving costs up. To him, the real fix lies in providers and payers sharing data to build more personalized care&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14592","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\/14592"}],"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=14592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}