Medicare’s new AI experiment sparks alarm among doctors, lawmakers

By: Anna Claire Vollers

Outlets: Stateline

Published: December 4, 2025

Words: 1,784

Last Updated: 2 weeks, 1 day ago

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A Medicare pilot program will allow private companies to use artificial intelligence to review older Americans’ requests for certain medical care — and will reward the companies when they deny it.

In January, the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will launch the Wasteful and Inappropriate Services Reduction (WISeR) Model to test AI-powered prior authorizations on certain health services for Medicare patients in six states: Arizona, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas and Washington. The …

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