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Trump administration accused of using AI to deny seniors' medical care
Original: Trump admin using AI to deny medical care for seniors in disastrous experiment
Critics say the Trump administration is letting AI tools decide Medicare claims for seniors, calling it a disastrous experiment in automated healthcare denials. Reporting points out that vendors rolling out AI systems have an incentive to deny as many claims as possible, raising concerns that older patients are being wrongly refused care at scale.
Why now: Concerns that automated AI claim denials are harming seniors' access to healthcare under new Trump administration policy
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Evidence
- Trump admin using AI to deny medical care for seniors in disastrous experiment · Ars Technica
Vendors rolling out AI have an "incentive to deny as many claims as possible."