Medicare's AI Pilot Backfires | Irvine News

Presented by The Plant Daddies — rare specimen trees, living art, and hand-carved limestone vessels and fountains for extraordinary spaces. Showrooms in Los Angeles and Irvine. Listeners of Irvine News Today receive 10% off with code LANEWS10. theplantdaddies.com/lanews Medicare’s new WISeR pilot, rolling out in six states including Oklahoma and Texas, is forcing patients and doctors into a bureaucratic nightmare with AI-driven prior authorizations for procedures like epidurals and spinal surgeries. Promised to curb fraud, the rushed rollout has caused chaos—patients make extra trips for paperwork, doctors face delays, and AI errors lead to costly appeals. Critics warn this could be just the beginning of a nationwide web of red tape, turning care into a paperwork game. Listen in comfort:Get a discount on a Soli Pillow: http://solipillow.com/discount/dnn. Advertise on DNN:[email protected] This is an automated, high-level news summary based on public reporting.Report issues to [email protected]. View sources & latest updates:https://sources.thednn.ai/540911dfd9df1a28