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Arkansas's Opaque Algorithm to Allocate Health Care Excessively Cut Down Hours for Beneficiaries
Beneficiaries of the Arkansas Department of Human Services (DHS)'s Medicaid waiver program were allocated excessively fewer hours of caretaker visit via an algorithm deployed to boost efficiency, which reportedly contained errors and whose outputs varied wildly despite small input changes.
- Date it happened
- 2016-01-01
- Organisation involved
- Arkansas Department of Human Services
- Product, system or model
- The algorithm allocates medicate services based on recipient data.
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