Judge Rules $400 Million Algorithmic System Illegally Denied Thousands of People’s Medicaid Benefits

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• deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Deloitte should be liable for the medical bills of patients who it wrongly denied coverage for.

  They saved money by skipping QA, they can pay for the fallout of their bugs.

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  • AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I agree.

    I also wish Deloitte would stop winning contracts to build their shitty, cobbled together tech solutions for pennies (to the contractors) on the dollar. Their track record for such activity is actually kinda garbage in the industry.

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    • DarkSpectrum@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Will keep happening as long as contracts are awarded based on flashy proposals.

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  • stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    God damn right. They want to outsource jobs AND cause people harm due to their ignorance?? (lead pipes, lead paint, asbestos, need I say more)

    Fuck that.

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• ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The “algorithmic system” didn’t design and build itself. What a bullshit cop-out.

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• vin@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is probably makes a good case for open sourcing all governing algorithms

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• Tricky@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Alright team, I’m bringing the opposite opinion to this thread. Bring your pitchforks.

  Two things :

  1. Hanlon’s razor. Consultants are not mensa candidates. They are ordinary people who sometimes do a shit job.

  2. Complexity. Each state has its own wildly complex eligibility and availability rules. Each insurer with each state, equally so. As much as this article shits on Deloitte for having 20+ state contracts, that doesn’t mean 1 common platform / common solution. People within the fediverse - being somewhat more tech inclined - should have some empathy for this

  I hate Deloitte as much as the next guy, but why no hatred for the politicians that wrote opaque state-based legislation? Why none for the insurers (private or public) who have a vested interest in denying coverage?

  If we are going to throw stones, let’s find the right villain.

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  • thurstylark@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The complexity is the point. The less people willing or able to jump through all the necessary hoops to receive their healthcare through the system, the less money they have to pay out. Adding more complexity in the form of yet another opaque approval system adds many more hoops to get through, which is actually the entire point. Deloitte knew this going in.

    Yes, I have sympathy for the individuals who have to build this system, however I have absolutely zero sympathy for the company that put it into practice.

    Yes, the medicare system is needlessly complex, however Deloitte decided to replace manpower with cheaper automation which had the side effect of saving them work by increasing rejections.

    The world also happens to be complex. Enough so that both things can be true.

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    • Tricky@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Agree with all your points. I just wanted to remind people to hate the architect, not just the coder.

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    • TechnologyChef@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Seems the same with State unemployment benefits too, just maybe not as deadly.

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  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Who’s not hating insurers? They’re awful.

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  • mriormro@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I see we have a consultant in our midsts.

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• JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ah, the ‘the system said it was so, so it had to be so’ excuse.

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