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When A.I. Denies Your Health Care

What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future

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How the Medicare Advantage Plan Estimates a Person's Longevity in a Facility

Before the use of algorithms, a human at an insurance company would carefully look over all the details of a patient's case and decide what they need. Algorithms like the one in the Medicare Advantage plan attempt to do the same thing. These algorithms are configured to estimate a person's length of stay based on patients like them.

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