STAT News journalists Casey Ross and Bob Herman will discuss their groundbreaking four-part series, Denied by AI, with Impact Award Chairman Greg Miles.
The series helped change the national public conversation about the use of AI in health care by exposing how algorithms have been used by insurers to override decisions by physicians. This practice slashed medical care for many patients while boosting insurers’ profits. The series helped spur a major Senate investigation focused on the use of AI and predictive technologies by the nation’s three largest Medicare Advantage insurers. The articles also spurred inquiries by Democratic and Republican congressmen and two major class-action lawsuits. The series also sparked an internal probe by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which proposed limits on the use of AI.
The Impact Award for Distinguished Financial Journalism is unique in financial journalism in that it focuses on the impact of a body of work, irrespective of when the story or stories were published. Past recipients include reporters at ProPublica, the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Forbes and BuzzFeed News, and the Financial Times.
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