My @arstechnica.com colleague Beth covered the Trump admin's disastrous pilot program that uses AI and ML to help authorize medical services to seniors in six states. Doctors describe patients crying in pain while waiting on delayed approval for procedures. arstechnica.com/hea…
- Medicare's WISeR AI pilot denied 53% of vendor Virtix's decisions in Washington in the first three months, on 6,000+ requests.
- In Arizona, a different WISeR contractor decided 14,300 requests over the same period and denied under 20%.
- Contractors are paid a share of 'averted expenditures,' and 72-hour decisions have stretched into weeks or months.