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

January 1, 2016

The Arkansas Department of Human Services (DHS) deployed an algorithm to boost efficiency in its Medicaid waiver program, reportedly causing excessively fewer hours of caretaker visit allocation for beneficiaries. The opaque nature of the algorithm raises questions about its accuracy, with outputs showing significant variability even in response to minor input changes.

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Alleged deployer: arkansas-department-of-human-services
Alleged developer: interrai
Alleged harmed parties: arkansas-medicaid-waiver-program-beneficiaries, arkansas-healthcare-workers

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