@brittanytrang Nice article! "Adversarial workflows" in healthcare is such a counterproductive state of affairs.

@mloxton

For fucks sake. Is my asthma really getting worse right now? Srsly? These late period cramps and whatever's up with my knee are unreal. Had 300 mg aspirin recently, so I'd be very annoyed to have AERD or N-ERD.

It's an absolute indictment of what the IDR process has become — and an illustration of how every incentive in American health care has unintended consequences that allow people to make tons of money off of nothing.If you get paywalled, STAT is running a 50% off sale through tomorrow; consider getting a subscription! https://marketing.statnews.com/stat-plus-march26

@chiasm Yes, that's the tough part. In theory, AI can solve a lot of problems, but in reality...it's something else!Thanks for reading!

The original story from last summer where I predicted this would happen: https://www.statnews.com/2025/08/20/ai-scribe-use-doctors-health-insurance-bills-may-rise/