{
  "id": 26945,
  "title": "Will AI Fix Prior Authorization — or Make It Worse?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/07/15/will-ai-fix-prior-authorization-or-make-it-worse",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-07-15T07:16:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Undark",
    "slug": "undark",
    "url": "https://undark.org/2026/07/15/medicare-prior-authorization-ai/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The Trump administration is currently piloting a program in six states that expands Medicare prior authorizations using AI tools in an effort to reduce unnecessary medical spending. But it remains to be seen whether this new approach, which the administration has called “broken” in the private sector, will be effective without causing dangerous delays for Medicare recipients.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}