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In the wake of the boom of artificial intelligence (AI), more healthcare insurance companies are using the technology to speed up the process of evaluating patient medical claims, making it quite likely AI played a hand in determining the outcome of your payout.
Newsweek spoke to experts about AI in the health care industry.
Why It Matters
Controlling the use of AI in the healthcare industry has been on the legislative agenda in a number of states in recent months, as critics argue that the technology increases inaccuracies and bias in medical decision-making, warning that patient health care is not being fairly reviewed.
It comes as part of the wave of scrutiny against health insurance companies following the assassination of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, as some subsequently accused the health providers of treating customers unfairly.
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What To Know
Explaining specifically how AI can process a medical claim, University of Pennsylvania Professor Hamsa Bastani told Newsweek that
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