Incident 110: Arkansas's Opaque Algorithm to Allocate Health Care Excessively Cut Down Hours for Beneficiaries
Description: 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.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: InterRAI developed an AI system deployed by Arkansas Department of Human Services, which harmed Arkansas Medicaid waiver program beneficiaries and Arkansas healthcare workers.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
110
Report Count
2
Incident Date
2016-01-01
Editors
Sean McGregor, Khoa Lam
Incident Reports
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theverge.com · 2018
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For most of her life, Tammy Dobbs, who has cerebral palsy, relied on her family in Missouri for care. But in 2008, she moved to Arkansas, where she signed up for a state program that provided for a caretaker to give her the help she needed.…
aclu.org · 2022
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Artificial intelligence (AI) and algorithmic decision-making systems — algorithms that analyze massive amounts of data and make predictions about the future — are increasingly affecting Americans’ daily lives. People are compelled to includ…
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