STAT+: Your questions answered: How insurers are using AI

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My colleague Casey Ross has been reporting on AI in health care since before it was cool (remember IBM’s Watson?) I’ve been working with Casey since I was a Begley fellow at STAT, and he has a way of cutting through corporate bluster and getting to the heart of an issue that I really admire and haven’t yet mastered. 

Last year Casey and fellow master-bluster-buster Bob Herman (the duo we at STAT affectionately call “Bob Ross”) were named Pulitzer Prize finalists for their Denied by AI investigation of how UnitedHealth and other insurers used an AI algorithm to inappropriately deny care to people in Medicare Advantage plans. Now, Casey has a new story on how health insurers are racing to implement AI in all aspects of their business, and how regulators are trying to sound the alarm about just how little we know about how those models are being trained and used. 

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