New Records Reveal Problems with Medicare’s AI Prior Authorization Experiment
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EFF sued the government for information a new Medicare program that uses AI to evaluate prior authorization requests for certain medical services. Today, we’re releasing approximately 1,000 pages of records obtained through this litigation. The records show that the program has resulted in widespread delays and denials of care, operational chaos, and reports of patient harm.

EFF sued the government back in March for information about the Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction (WISeR) model, a new Medicare program that uses AI to evaluate prior authorization requests for certain medical services… The documents (available here) show that WISeR has resulted in widespread delays and denials of care, operational chaos, and reports of patient harm.