Medicare’s AI prior authorization pilot was rushed and full of problems, new documents reveal

This press release from Representative Suzan K. DelBene (D-WA) was published on 2026-09-15 and titled "Medicare’s AI prior authorization pilot was rushed and full of problems, new documents reveal".

Medicare’s AI prior authorization pilot was rushed and full of problems, new documents reveal

The rollout of a Medicare program that uses artificial intelligence to approve or deny care was hasty and error-ridden, according to more than a thousand pages of recently released documents and data. The pilot program, called the Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction model, or WISeR, launched in January and requires health care providers to seek approvals before they can provide certain procedures and products, like skin substitutes and epidural injections for pain management. The experiment operates in New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona, and Washington and will run until 2031. Read the full article here .