{"id":25627,"date":"2026-02-25T08:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T13:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25627"},"modified":"2026-02-25T08:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T13:00:12","slug":"alabama-bill-would-restrict-insurers-use-of-ai-in-prior-authorization-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25627","title":{"rendered":"Alabama bill would restrict insurers\u2019 use of AI in prior authorization decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By:\u00a0Jakob Emerson for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Alabama Senate has passed legislation that would impose new requirements on insurers that use AI to make prior authorization decisions, including a mandate that any decision to deny a request must be made by a physician or other qualified provider.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckerspayer.com\/policy-updates\/alabama-bill-would-restrict-insurers-use-of-ai-in-prior-authorization-decisions\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.beckerspayer.com\/policy-updates\/alabama-bill-would-restrict-insurers-use-of-ai-in-prior-authorization-decisions\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By:\u00a0Jakob Emerson for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) The Alabama Senate has passed legislation that would impose new requirements on insurers that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,10,846],"tags":[153,2011,442],"class_list":["post-25627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-legislative-update","category-prior-authorization","tag-ai","tag-ai-powered-prior-authorization","tag-prior-authorization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25628,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25627\/revisions\/25628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}