AI in Healthcare February 14, 2025
Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.
- A federal judge has vacated five of seven complaints against UnitedHealth Group—yet is allowing the AI-implicated suit to advance. This is the class action in which a handful of Medicare Advantage enrollees accuse the insurer of using AI to reflexively deny claims. The lawsuit, filed with a federal court in Minnesota, gives several examples of the harm allegedly done by the AI-aided claims denials. One describes a series of refusals to pay for a 74-year-old’s stroke care. The patient ended up on the hook for more than $70,000 only to die in an assisted-living facility, according to representatives of the decedent’s estate. The suit charges UnitedHealth with “bank[ing] on patients’ impaired conditions,...
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