tl;dr: A government watchdog investigated what STAT found in its Pulitzer-finalist "Denied by AI" series and found:
-health insurance companies' denials for care were overturned 97% of the time when they were appealed
-82% of people do not appeal and thus were wrongly denied care for no reason
Brittany Trang
Biggest Medicare Advantage insurers denied rehabilitative care for older and disabled Americans at higher rates than industry peers, then frequently overturned those denials when patients appealed, OIG finds. Confirms reporting from @caseyross.bsky.social and me: www.statnews.com/2026/06/11/m...
Federal investigation finds Medicare Advantage insurers block rehab care for older adults, only to reverse denials on appeal.
"example provided"! Curious if that's referring to another email, or mine. Very mysterious.
And thanks for sending; that proves to the LLM that's constantly trying to optimize my subject lines without permission that my subject line is fine!
But in the midst of it all, I can't help but wonder if a plain ol voice note stored locally on my phone (perhaps one that gets transcribed, if one is not picky about the data going out that way) would be better than an AI scribe. Certainly that would eliminate lots of the issues raised here.
Am I hearing things? Or does the new Death Cab for Cutie song "I Built You A Tower (a)" sound like a TWIABP song to anyone else?
(specifically "Infinite Josh" or "Afraid to Die")
