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HEALTHCARE JOURNAL OF BATON ROUGE I  JAN / FEB 2026 15 her protected health information, we have not published the full documents and audio provided to us from OMHA from the appeal hearings, but we did post this image from the case decision: https://inhumanabook.com/wp-content/ uploads/2024/06/OMHA-NOD.png. 8 Casey Ross and Bob Herman, “Denied by AI,” STAT, https://www.statnews.com/denied-by-ai- unitedhealth-investigative-series/. 9 Casey Ross and Bob Herman, “Denied by AI: How Medicare Advantage Plans Use Al- gorithms to Cut Off Care for Seniors in Need,” STAT, March 13, 2023, https://www.statnews . com/2023/03/13/medicare-advantage-plans- denial-artificial-intelligence/. 10 Jeannie Fuglesten Biniek, Nolan Sroczynski, Meredith Freed, and Tricia Neuman, “Medicare Advantage Insurers Made Nearly 50 Million Prior Authorization Determinations in 2023,” January 28, 2025, KFF, https://www.kff.org/medicare/ nearly-50-million-prior-authorization-requests- were-sent-to-medicare-advantage-insurers- in-2023/. 11 Gretchen Jacobson, Faith Leonard, Elizabeth Sciupac, and Robyn Rapoport, “What Do Medi- care Beneficiaries Value About Their Coverage? Findings from the Commonwealth Fund 2024 Value of Medicare Survey,” The Commonwealth Fund, February 22, 2024, https://www.common wealthfund.org/publications/surveys/2024/feb/ what-do-medicare-beneficiaries-value-about- their-coverage. 12 H. Allen Orr, “Darwin and Darwinism: The (Al- leged) Social Implications of The Origin of Spe- cies,” Genetics 183, no. 3 (2009): 767–72, https:// doi.org/10.1534/genetics.109.110445. 13 “Trend Alert: Private Payers Retain Profits by Refusing or Delaying Legitimate Medical Claims,” Premier, March 21, 2024, https://premierinc. com/newsroom/blog/trend-alert-private- payers-retain-profits-by-refusing-or-delaying- legitimate-medical-claims; Mike Ludwig, “Critics Say Insurance Companies Deny Medical Claims to Make Billions in Profit,” Truthout, October 20, 2022, https://truthout.org/articles/critics-say- insurance-companies-deny-medical-claims-to- make-billions-in-profit/. 14 “President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Farewell Address (1961),” National Archives, https:// www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/ president-dwight-d-eisenhowers-farewell- address#transcript. 15 “CMS Launches New Model to Target Wasteful, Inappropriate Services in Original Medicare,” Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, June 27, 2025, https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/ press-releases/cms-launches-new-model- target-wasteful-inappropriate-services-original- medicare. 16 Reed Abelson and Teddy Rosenbluth, “Medi- care Will Require Prior Approval for Certain Procedures,” New York Times, August 28, 2025, https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/health/ medicare-prior-approval-health-care.html. 17 Meghan Basler, “WISeR Model Signals Changes in CMS’s Approach to Prior Authorization,” Ap- pliedPolicy,August29,2025, https://www.applied policy.com/wiser-model-signals-changes-in- cmss-approach-to-prior-authorization/. 18 “Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise,” The Heritage Foundation, 2023, https://static.heritage.org/project2025/2025_ MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf. 19 Jake Goldstein-Street, “AI Reviews Roll- ing Out for Medicare in WA for Some Proce- dures,” Washington State Standard, Septem- ber 25, 2025, https://washingtonstatestandard. com/2025/09/25/ai-reviews-rolling-out-for- medicare-in-wa-for-some-procedures/. 20 “Democrats Introduce Legislation to Block Harmful Red Tape in Medicare,” Rep. Rick Lars- en, November, 7, 2025, https://larsen.house.gov/ news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=4046. 21 Anna Claire Vollers, “Medicare’s New AI Experi- ment Sparks Alarm Among Doctors, Lawmakers,” Stateline, December 4, 2025, https://stateline. org/2025/12/04/medicares-new-ai-experiment- sparks-alarm-among-doctors-lawmakers/. 22 Brenda Gazzar, host, Code Wack Podcast, “When Doctors Suffer Too: The Hidden Crisis of Moral Injury in U.S. Healthcare,” posted on Physicians for a National Health Program, July 28, 2025, https://pnhp.org/news/when-doctors- suffer-too-the-hidden-crisis-of-moral-injury-in- u-s-healthcare/. 23 Aaron Toleos, “Press Release: Older Adults Get Unnecessary Back Surgeries at an Alarming Rate,” Lown Institute, October 7, 2025, https:// lowninstitute.org/press-release-older-adults- get-unnecessary-back-surgeries-at-an-alarming- rate/. 24 “About,” Lown Institute, n.d., https:// lowninstitute.org/about/. “Originally, I hoped InHumana would encourage beneficiaries to stick with traditional Medicare to avoid AI-driven denials of prior authorization in Medicare Advantage. Thanks to recent developments in Washington, DC, however, that argument may soon become moot.” JeremyWhite is theauthor of InHumana: AnAmericanHealthcareStory and The Little Girl at the Bottomof the Picture: A Journey of Selfless Discovery . He and his wife, Edie, founded the award-winning satirical publication Red Shtick Magazine , as well as its digital progeny, The Red Shtick.