Arkansas healthcare workers

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Incident 1102 Reports
Arkansas's Opaque Algorithm to Allocate Health Care Excessively Cut Down Hours for Beneficiaries

2016-01-01

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.

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Arkansas Department of Human Services

Incidents involved as Deployer

Incident 110
2 Reports
Arkansas's Opaque Algorithm to Allocate Health Care Excessively Cut Down Hours for Beneficiaries

InterRAI

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Incident 110
2 Reports
Arkansas's Opaque Algorithm to Allocate Health Care Excessively Cut Down Hours for Beneficiaries

Arkansas Medicaid waiver program beneficiaries

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Incident 110
2 Reports
Arkansas's Opaque Algorithm to Allocate Health Care Excessively Cut Down Hours for Beneficiaries