Generative AI

Short answer Can prior authorization and utilization review be done by machine? Prior authorization and utilization review can be automated in part, but the refusal itself needs a person. Texas bars a utilization review agent from using an automated decision system to make an adverse determination, wholly or partly. Federal rules name a human but …

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Short answer Is AI deciding Medicare coverage? AI is not deciding Medicare coverage on its own. Medicare runs a pilot using artificial intelligence to review some prior authorization requests in six states, covering Original Medicare only. Under Medicare Advantage a licensed clinician must review any denial based on medical necessity. Medicare began an experiment this …

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The first time the model finished one of my sentences, I was writing about a caregiving tool for an aging parent. I paused at the end of a clause. The completion appeared in my draft. I read it. It was correct. I kept writing. Three weeks later, I went back to that section and could …

The model that knew too much and understood nothing · Hanh D. Brown Read More »

The sentence is not about loss. Loss has already been described too well by too many machines trained on too much literature. The sentence is about the cadence my mother sang while she cooked. I do not remember the words. I remember the cadence. IN THIS ESSAY 01The category is embodied continuity, not autobiography, the …

What the machine simply cannot ever manage to say to you · Hanh D. Brown Read More »

The decision before the sentence# Before a writer commits to a sentence, they have to commit to a position. Most don’t. They write the sentence first and hope the position emerges from it. Not for me. IN THIS ESSAY 01The decision that arrives before the sentence does 02What the decision actually is when you write …

On writing like you genuinely mean every single word · Hanh D. Brown Read More »

I have been a real estate investor for eighteen years. My first home was in Plymouth, Michigan, in 2008. Since then I have moved into multi-family. I started building with AI when ChatGPT shipped in November 2022. The first practice is far older than the second, and it is teaching the second most of what …

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I keep a folder of sentences I have not implemented yet. I do not call it the almost folder. I do not call it the failure folder. I call it the working folder, because the work is what is in it. I believe in starting before I know what to do. The discipline is to …

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Short answer How do you check whether a policy claim is true? Check a policy claim in three steps. Confirm the citation exists. Then read the passage yourself, because a citation checker only proves the reference is real, not that the sentence is true. Then ask whether anyone has actually read the rule, since nothing …

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Short answer What is the difference between a statute, a rule and guidance? A statute is written by Congress, a rule by an agency after public comment, and guidance is the agency explaining itself. Statutes and rules bind. Guidance usually does not, but under the Medicare Act a policy statement can still set a binding …

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Editing fixes sentences. Revision rewrites the spec. Most writers spend their careers doing the first when the second is what is wrong. IN THIS ESSAY 01The gold standard is the spec, the contract 02Three signs you should revise, not edit, titles, close, polish 03What I do, in order, five steps 04I write in modules, so …

What revision actually is, and what it certainly is not · Hanh D. Brown Read More »