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Your Insurance Company Uses an Algorithm to Deny Claims. Here's the Algorithm.

Your Insurance Company Uses an Algorithm to Deny Claims. Here's the Algorithm.

The doctor spent 1.2 seconds reviewing your claim. That's not an estimate. That's the documented average, pulled from internal Cigna records obtained by ProPublica. In the time it takes to blink twice, a physician employed by your insurance company decided whether you needed medical care.

Someone Swapped Real Chemotherapy for Fakes. Patients Found Out When the Cancer Came Back.

Someone Swapped Real Chemotherapy for Fakes. Patients Found Out When the Cancer Came Back.

Cancer drugs are now the fourth most counterfeited drug class in the world. The WHO issued an alert about fake immunotherapy drugs with no active ingredient. Counterfeit Keytruda killed at least one patient in Mexico. Fake cancer drugs have reached US clinics. Most providers don't know it.

Extreme close-up of a computer mouse being moved, motion blur, screen reflected in the lens

Your Mouse Movements Are Training Someone Else's AI, and Nobody Asked You

Hospital monitor displaying algorithmic output, medical chart in background, no human visible

The Algorithm That Decides Whether Your Cancer Treatment Gets Approved

Stack of insurance claim forms beside an adding machine, red stamp marks on top sheets

The $233 Million Fraud Scheme That Used Your Healthcare.gov Application Against You

Delivery driver on a bicycle checking a phone for the next order, timestamp visible on screen

Ten Minutes or You're Fired: Inside the Algorithm Running the Gig Economy

Corporate seminar room with rows of attendees and a speaker holding a branded binder

NXIVM Wasn't an Anomaly. It Was a Business Model With Better Branding.