Caliri: Lack of billing codes delayed AI diagnostic deployment for years
Sebastian Caliri · How Psychedelic Medicine Could Transform Healthcare | Why Medical School Is Broken · Joe Lonsdale · Aug 8, 2022 · at 9:03
Sebastian Caliri, partner at 8VC, explains how legacy fee-for-service billing codes create regulatory bottlenecks for medical AI adoption.
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“There was no code for AI to perform a diabetic retinopathy screen. And so even though we had the technology for years, we couldn't get paid for it. It was silly. And this is something we could have deployed across the country by now. And, you know, instead we got stuck in a regulatory morass.”
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