TransparencyMedium
Arkansas's Opaque Algorithm to Allocate Health Care Excessively Cut Down Hours for Beneficiaries
- Occurred
- Jan 1, 2016
- Published
- Oct 3, 2022
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Beneficiaries of the Arkansas Department of Human Services (DHS)'s Medicaid waiver program were allocated excessively fewer hours of caretaker visit via an algorithm deployed to boost efficiency, which reportedly contained errors and whose outputs varied wildly despite small input changes.
Developers
- InterRAI
Deployers
- Arkansas Department of Human Services
Harmed parties
- Arkansas Medicaid waiver program beneficiaries
- Arkansas healthcare workers
Classification
Category confidence: 85%
Severity confidence: 80%
Rationale: Algorithm opacity and errors caused harmful allocation of care hours without clear explanation.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8