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How insurance companies use AI algorithms to cut health care for seniors on Medicare Advantage

Published March 15, 2023 at 9:52 AM PDT

Insurance companies are using algorithms to cut off healthcare to vulnerable seniors subscribed to Medicare Advantage, the taxpayer-funded alternative to traditional Medicare.

Here & Now‘s Robin Young hears more from Bob Herman, who covers the business of healthcare for STAT News, the health and medicine publication.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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