{"id":584749,"date":"2026-07-14T07:24:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T07:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/584749\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T07:24:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T07:24:19","slug":"mark-cuban-says-ai-risks-making-us-healthcare-worse-by-fueling-an-arms-race-with-insurers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/584749\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Cuban says AI risks making US healthcare worse by fueling an arms race with insurers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"yf-1jsc1up\">\n<li class=\"yf-1jsc1up\">\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Mark Cuban said AI could turn US healthcare into an AI-versus-AI battle.  <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"yf-1jsc1up\">\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">He said insurers could use AI to protect profits while hospitals use it to fight denied claims.  <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"yf-1jsc1up\">\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Cuban likened it to a comic strip about two rival spies constantly trying to outwit and sabotage each other.  <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">If you thought AI would fix the US healthcare system, Mark Cuban says think again.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">He said that while AI agents can help doctors, the same technology can also be used by insurers and other healthcare intermediaries to make care more difficult and expensive for doctors and patients.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">&#8220;For every future agent we give <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/how-doctors-use-ai-chatgpt-including-to-help-avoid-burnout-2025-10?utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=yahoocom&amp;utm_medium=syndication&amp;utm_source=yahoo\" data-ylk=\"slk:AI%20doctors;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;source:content-canvas%20default\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;AI doctors&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yTrafficOrigin&quot;:&quot;content-canvas default&quot;}\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">AI doctors<\/a> to deal with this friction, and to improve the quality of care, the conglomerates will have multiple adversarial agents doing all they can to delay and deny,&#8221; Cuban wrote in an X post on Sunday.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Cuban was responding to venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, who said on X the same day that &#8220;AI is already a better doctor than 99.99% of human doctors.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Cuban said the biggest obstacle to improving healthcare is insurers, pharmacy benefit managers, and other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/capital-rx-revenue-congress-drug-pricing-reform-2025-2?utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=yahoocom&amp;utm_medium=syndication&amp;utm_source=yahoo\" data-ylk=\"slk:healthcare%20middlemen;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;source:content-canvas%20default\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;healthcare middlemen&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yTrafficOrigin&quot;:&quot;content-canvas default&quot;}\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">healthcare middlemen<\/a>, which he said already consume a significant share of physicians&#8217; time and have every incentive to use AI to protect their profits.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">&#8220;25 pct or more of a doctor&#8217;s time is spent dealing with conglomerates that do all they can to make the doctor&#8217;s care more difficult, and expensive, for both the doctor and patient,&#8221; he wrote.  <\/p>\n<p>            AI is already fighting AI in healthcare          <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Cuban said the conflict is already playing out.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">&#8220;We see this already as the conglomerates use AI to find every possible way to manipulate contracts, and find ways to mislead, while hospitals hire companies for Revenue Cycle Management, who charge as much as 10 pct of revenue to have their agents try to do the reverse,&#8221; he wrote.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Cuban has long said that healthcare intermediaries drive up costs. In 2022, he cofounded the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/mark-cuban-why-he-started-cost-plus-drugs-2025-5?utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=yahoocom&amp;utm_medium=syndication&amp;utm_source=yahoo\" data-ylk=\"slk:Cost%20Plus%20Drug%20Company;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;source:content-canvas%20default\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Cost Plus Drug Company&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yTrafficOrigin&quot;:&quot;content-canvas default&quot;}\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Cost Plus Drug Company<\/a>, which aims to lower prescription drug prices by bypassing traditional go-betweens and by selling generic medicines directly to consumers with transparent markups.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Cuban likened competing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/botsitting-frustrating-ai-strategist-hires-humans-instead-2026-6?utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=yahoocom&amp;utm_medium=syndication&amp;utm_source=yahoo\" data-ylk=\"slk:AI%20agents;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;source:content-canvas%20default\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;AI agents&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yTrafficOrigin&quot;:&quot;content-canvas default&quot;}\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">AI agents<\/a> to &#8220;the agentic version of Mad magazine Spy vs. Spy,&#8221; a long-running comic strip about two rival spies constantly trying to outwit and sabotage each other.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">He also said employers have little visibility into what healthcare actually costs, making it harder for AI to optimize spending.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">&#8220;There isn&#8217;t a single company, including yours, that knows the actual cost of the care they purchase for your employees and families. Not one,&#8221; he wrote on X.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Rather than layering AI onto the healthcare system, Cuban said businesses should use AI agents to negotiate and contract directly with healthcare providers, bypassing insurers and other intermediaries.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Until those or intermediaries are removed, he said, AI alone won&#8217;t fix the industry&#8217;s biggest problems.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">If you enjoyed this story, be sure to follow <a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.yahoo.com\/brands\/business-insider\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:Business%20Insider;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;source:content-canvas%20default\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Business Insider&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yTrafficOrigin&quot;:&quot;content-canvas default&quot;}\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Business Insider<\/a> on Yahoo.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mark Cuban said AI could turn US healthcare into an AI-versus-AI battle. 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