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Optum Healthcare Algorithm Systematically Underprovided Care to Black Patients — PAI incident record

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  • Optum (UnitedHealth)

    entity | 1 Jan 2019 | 72%

    Optum (UnitedHealth) — organisation named in the Production AI Institute incident registry.

  • Optum Healthcare Algorithm Systematically Underprovided Care to Black Patients

    event | 1 Jan 2019 | 80%

    A widely used healthcare risk algorithm sold by Optum used healthcare spending as a proxy for health need. Because structural inequalities mean Black patients historically spent less on healthcare than equally sick white patients, the algorithm systematically underestimated the health needs of Blac…