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The nation’s largest health insurance company pressured its medical staff to cut off payments for seriously ill patients in lockstep with a computer algorithm’s calculations, denying rehabilitation ...
Just over a year before United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was murdered this week in Midtown Manhattan, a lawsuit filed against the insurance giant he helmed revealed just how draconian its ...
City of Amman, Jordan—The Human Rights Watch report, based on 70 interviews and an analysis of World Bank documents, found that the algorithm, which ranked low-income families on 57 factors, excluded ...
Amsterdam’s struggles with its welfare fraud algorithm show us the stakes of deploying AI in situations that directly affect human lives. What Amsterdam’s welfare fraud algorithm taught me about fair ...
Cigna is using an algorithm to review — and often reject — hundreds of thousands of patient health insurance claims, a new lawsuit claims, with doctors rubber-stamping those denials without ...
In four Michigan cities, a property management company called RealPage offers an algorithm to suggest rental prices to corporate landlords. It uses a sophisticated AI to crunch large troves of data ...
This article is the first in a series on prescription drug monitoring programs and analysis tools designed to give clinicians a view of how likely their patient is to abuse or overdose on a prescribed ...