How insurers are using unregulated predictive algorithms to pinpoint the precise moment when they can plausibly cut off payment for older patients' treatment (STAT)

STAT:
How insurers are using unregulated predictive algorithms to pinpoint the precise moment when they can plausibly cut off payment for older patients' treatment  —  An algorithm, not a doctor, predicted a rapid recovery for Frances Walter, an 85-year-old Wisconsin woman with a shattered left shoulder and an allergy to pain medicine.

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