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UnitedHealth uses faulty AI to deny elderly patients medically necessary coverage, lawsuit claims
The families of two now-deceased former beneficiaries of UnitedHealth have filed a lawsuit against the health care giant, alleging it knowingly used a faulty artificial intelligence algorithm to deny elderly patients coverage for extended care deemed necessary by their doctors.
The lawsuit, filed last Tuesday in federal court in Minnesota, claims UnitedHealth illegally denied "elderly patients care owed to them under Medicare Advantage Plans" by deploying an AI model known by the company to have a 90% error rate, overriding determinations made by the patients' physicians that the expenses were medically necessary.
"The elderly are prematurely kicked out of care facilities nationwide or forced to deplete family savings to continue receiving necessary medical care, all because [UnitedHealth's] AI model 'disagrees' with their real live doctors' determinations," according to the complaint.
Medicare Advantage plans, which are administered by private health insurers such as UnitedHealth, are Medicare-approved insurance plans available to elderly people as an alternative to traditional federal health insurance plans, according to the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
The use of the allegedly defective AI model, developed by NaviHealth and called "nH Predict," enabled the insurance company to "prematurely and in bad faith discontinue payment" to its elderly beneficiaries, causing them medical or financial hardships, the lawsuit states.
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The "news" is beginning to wake up...
βThe surge of social media posts praising and glorifying the killing of #UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson is deeply concerning,β said Alex Goldenberg, senior adviser for the institute and fellow at Rutgers.
βWeβve identified highly engaged posts circulating the names of other healthcare CEOs and others celebrating the shooter,β he said. βThe framing of this incident as some opening blow in a class war and not a brutal murder is especially alarming.β
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This is capitalism - inhuman profit maximization.
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