Government warns Medicare Advantage insurers not to deny care based on AI
02/09/24 at 02:00 AM
Government warns Medicare Advantage insurers not to deny care based on AI
STAT, by Casey Ross and Bob Herman; 2/7/24
In recent months, the federal government has repeatedly told Medicare Advantage insurers that they cannot use artificial intelligence or algorithms to deny medical services the government routinely covers. But in finalizing a rule to that effect, it also stepped into a thicket of questions from insurers about a technology that is especially difficult to pin down: What is AI? Can it be used at all to make decisions about the coverage of older patients? If so, how?
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