{"id":26142,"date":"2026-06-23T10:08:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T14:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=26142"},"modified":"2026-06-23T10:08:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T14:08:06","slug":"medicares-ai-push-snarls-patients-and-doctors-in-errors-and-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=26142","title":{"rendered":"Medicare\u2019s AI Push Snarls Patients and Doctors in Errors and Delays"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Darius Tahir for KFF Health News published June 23, 2026)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bill Curry, 65, raises cattle on the same land in rural Oklahoma once owned by his father and generations before him. Each quarter, for several years, he has made the 2\u00bd-hour drive to Oklahoma City for an epidural in his spine to treat his back pain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But this year, because of a new Medicare program, Curry has traveled a little more often.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/medicare\/medicare-ai-prior-authorization-wiser-delays-errors\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/medicare\/medicare-ai-prior-authorization-wiser-delays-errors\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health polity news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"17\" class=\"wp-image-21118\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image.png 500w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-300x34.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Darius Tahir for KFF Health News published June 23, 2026) Bill Curry, 65, raises cattle on the same land<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,6,846],"tags":[153,80,238,61,442],"class_list":["post-26142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-medicare-general","category-prior-authorization","tag-ai","tag-cms","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-medicare","tag-prior-authorization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26142","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=26142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26143,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26142\/revisions\/26143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}