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"Thrush’s productivity has paid off. He earned $420,000 for reviewing the applications of 9,088 Tennesseans applying for disability during the year ending June 30. He has made more than $2.2 million since 2013."

Did someone code up an AI model for him?

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Perhaps his practice has employees. Junior staff do all the work, he (reviews and) signs the papers.

Seriously, that's 36 / week day (or 24 / day if he works weekends) with no vacation!

  while read app; echo "DENIED" >> ${app}; done

Needs more nested ifs to be truly AI.

It's just gotta pass the Turing Test. The doctor in question could be represented by this pseudocode with no nesting:

claimstatus = rejected

randomvalue = GetRandomValue(1,100)

If (randomvalue <= 20), Then claimstatus = approved

return claimstatus

Doesn't even have to read the application. Well, maybe the name or app number just so it can reference it in the official response. That might be another application, though, with this one being the review application.

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