While there have been few publicly reported (AI)-driven layoffs in health care, companies such as Amazon have announced large-scale job cuts — about 30,000 positions — explicitly tied to the adoption of artificial intelligence tools. In health care, one of the more prominent examples involved Revere Health, which eliminated nearly 200 jobs, or about 7% of its workforce, in a move described as largely driven by artificial intelligence, particularly affecting coders and related positions. Christopher S. Mayer, J.D., an employment law specialist with the firm Frier Levitt, summarizes publicly.
Medical Economics: Have there been any major AI related layoffs across the health care sector?
Christopher S. Mayer, J.D.: That's a great question there. There haven't been many public ones. I mean, what we're seeing more like the Amazons of the world, where the Amazon recently started in October last year, eliminated 30,000 jobs, and those were good, high paying jobs, kind of across the board. And they specifically said that this was AI driven. It says we're integrating and adopting AI tools in our business, we're going that route. There haven't been a lot of prominent examples in health care, and part of that is because I think the layoffs will be smaller. If you're talking about a small provider, which I know is a lot of the audience here, they're never going to be covered by, say, the federal or state WARN Act. So they're not going to have to report a layoff to a provider or to the...
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