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Billionaire Mark Cuban urged government agencies and companies on Friday to have artificial intelligence assistants like Anthropic\u2019s Claude or OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT identify their healthcare benefit contracts for hidden fees and mismatched definitions that drain corporate cash flow.<\/p>\n
Mark Cuban, co-founder of Cost Plus Drugs, testifies during the Senate Special Committee on Aging hearing titled “Modernizing Health Care: How Shoppable Services Improve Outcomes and Lower Costs.”<\/p>\n
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In an interview<\/a> with Kara Swisher, Cuban said he pushes cities, states and companies to let him look at their contracts and feed the contracts through Claude with a single prompt\u2014”Where am I getting [screwed] over?”\u2014and the tool immediately flags problematic clauses.<\/p>\n Cuban argued health care benefits are the single most actionable cost target for tech companies with over a thousand employees.<\/p>\n \u201cEvery penny they save on their healthcare benefits is cashflow that goes right to the bottom line,\u201d Cuban said.<\/p>\n Cuban said vendors exploit the length of healthcare contracts to bury mismatched definitions that add hidden fees or exclude specialty drugs.<\/p>\n Forbes Valuation<\/p>\n We estimate Cuban\u2019s net worth at $6 billion as of Friday.<\/p>\n Key Background<\/p>\n Cuban has spent years positioning himself at the intersection of health care cost reform and technology, becoming a prominent supporter of AI. One of Cuban\u2019s dozens of business ventures includes Cost Plus Drugs, a pharmacy venture he founded to sell generic medications at near-wholesale prices. His company uses AI customer care agents<\/a> that it says serves \u201cexponentially more patients without adding overhead costs.\u201d Cuban has said he uses AI daily to help with tasks related to his health and his work. However, the billionaire has acknowledged the need to fact check results provided by AI chatbots, which are prone to producing wrong answers and fabricated information. \u201cYou\u2019ve got to be careful,\u201d Cuban told High Performance,<\/a> “it\u2019s like talking to a friend who you think knows a lot about something.\u201d <\/p>\n Further Reading<\/p>\n