Thomas G. McGuire

It is no secret that the healthcare system is rife with inequities—from geography to race to class. Recent advances in data science and algorithmic fairness modeling are empowering researchers to quantify those inequities at unprecedented scale. These AI-driven opportunities may have a significant impact on the pricing of healthcare. This brief seeks to provide policymakers a new opportunity to realign the healthcare market’s incentives in favor of patients, recommending interventions that shape companies’ incentives around the pricing models they deploy—all of which come with their own trade-offs.