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My colleague Casey Ross reports on the AI in health care since before it’s cool (do you remember Watson from IBM?) I’ve been working with Casey since I was a Begley scholarship holder at Stat, and he has a way to cut the fanfaron of companies and put myself at the heart of a problem that I really admire and that I have not yet mastered.
Last year, Casey and his colleague Master-Bluster-Buster Bob Herman (the duo that we affectionately call “Bob Ross”) were named finalists of the Pulitzer Prize for their investigation of AI on the way in which Unitedhealth and other insurers used an AI algorithm to inappropriately refuse care to people in the Medicare plans. Now Casey has a new story about how health insurers run to implement AI in all aspects of their business, and how regulators try to ring the alarm how little we know how these models are formed and used.
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