Medicaid plans scrap, revise tools with racial biases, survey shows

A majority of Medicaid managed care organizations have modified or abandoned algorithms, policies or models they determined to be racially biased, according to survey results the Institute for Medicaid Innovation released Friday.

The institute found that 88% of Medicaid carriers revised health management tools to remove biases that negatively affected the health of people of color over the year prior to the survey. Health insurance companies…