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. - ThreadSky

notmypreside11.bsky.social • 168 days ago

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.

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nuancesystems.com•167 days ago

Sounds like an incoming class action.

olddragoon.bsky.social•167 days ago

There needs to be a massive class action lawsuit

billywm.bsky.social•167 days ago

Needs to be flat out illegal to apply ANNs to most kinds of decisions making - medical, legal, etc.

littlleoldme.bsky.social•167 days ago

this seems like it could be a huge class action lawsuit.

donnasparklees.bsky.social•167 days ago

Exactly which is why although Advantage Plans are much much cheaper I pay for regular Medicare $183mo & a supplement $150. I’d rather have my life saved than to be have dental & gym membership included

bethanycran.bsky.social•167 days ago

Yes it’s time for ALL THE LAWSUITS. They’ve been hiding behind their obscure jargon and now we all know it.

notmypreside11.bsky.social•168 days ago

The lawsuit, filed last Tuesday in federal court in Minnesota, claims UnitedHealth illegally denied "elderly patients care owed to them under Medicare Advantage Plans"

notmypreside11.bsky.social•168 days ago

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.

notmypreside11.bsky.social•168 days ago

"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.

notmypreside11.bsky.social•168 days ago

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.

notmypreside11.bsky.social•168 days ago

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.

nateturner.bsky.social•167 days ago

SUE THE FUCK OUT OF THEM!

icogitate.bsky.social•167 days ago

That needs to become a class action lawsuit.

shapathdas.bsky.social•168 days ago

@notmypreside11.bsky.social When you realize the AI model used by UnitedHealth has a 90% error rate and it's still calling the shots on patient care... 🤖 Talk about a classic case of overfitting to bad data!

billywm.bsky.social•167 days ago

This implies there's a hypothetical correct model. There's not. Machines can never understand anything. Searle already sorted this.

(Also, the data is fine)

mothership14.bsky.social•167 days ago

I think we'll be seeing many more of these.

roudy1.bsky.social•167 days ago

sue them and the billionaires who paid for the AI death macine

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