Rising AI battle between hospitals and insurers drives soaring medical bills, says pediatric cardiologist

Darshak Sanghavi, a pediatric cardiologist and chief medical officer of Machinify, writes an opinion piece about an emerging AI conflict between health providers and insurers over patient records and billing.

He recounts a personal story of a newborn who required intensive care and resulted in a hospital bill of more than $550,000, highlighting the financial burden that can follow even life‑saving care.

Sanghavi warns that both hospitals and insurers are now training artificial‑intelligence systems to claim, verify, and contest the same medical data, creating an arms race that could further inflate costs and complicate reimbursement for patients and providers alike.