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A lawsuit alleges UnitedHealth deployed an AI system with a 90% error rate to automatically deny patient care requests. The practice has left sick people without coverage while the system malfunctions.
A lawsuit claims UnitedHealth deployed an AI system to automatically deny patient care requests that was wrong 90% of the time. The system was actively used to reject coverage decisions, leaving sick people without treatments while the algorithm malfunctioned at scale. UnitedHealth is one of the largest health insurers in the country.
A 90% error rate isn't a glitch. It's a system that's wrong almost every time it makes a decision. If the lawsuit's numbers are accurate, this isn't an algorithm that needs better training—it's a deliberate choice to use a broken system because it denies more claims and therefore costs less money. When automation is this unreliable, you're not improving efficiency, you're automating rejections. Patients have no way to know whether their denial came from a human reviewer or a machine that's wrong nine times out of ten.
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