{"id":173898,"date":"2026-01-02T04:32:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T09:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/02\/wholl-pay-for-ai-in-health-care-3-trends-to-watch-in-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T04:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T09:50:09","slug":"wholl-pay-for-ai-in-health-care-3-trends-to-watch-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/02\/wholl-pay-for-ai-in-health-care-3-trends-to-watch-in-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Who&#8217;ll pay for AI in health care? 3 trends to watch in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/01\/02\/health-tech-trends-2026-who-pays-for-artificial-intelligence\/\">Who&#8217;ll pay for AI in health care? 3 trends to watch in 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/01\/02\/health-tech-trends-2026-who-pays-for-artificial-intelligence\/\">https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/01\/02\/health-tech-trends-2026-who-pays-for-artificial-intelligence\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-02 04:32:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.statnews.com\">www.statnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The healthcare industry is preparing for a debate on how to incorporate and compensate for clinical artificial intelligence (AI) adoption.<\/li>\n<li>FDA has authorized 1,357 AI-enabled medical devices, but few of these are covered by insurance.<\/li>\n<li>Experts like Ateev Mehrotra suggest focusing AI improvements on clinician productivity and efficiency to indirectly affect payment.<\/li>\n<li>The American Medical Association (AMA) is considering new reimbursement codes for AI, especially those not requiring physician input.<\/li>\n<li>Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and medical societies are working on payment models for AI, potentially years away.<\/li>\n<li>Specific use cases show varied payment models: coronary plaque analysis reimbursed by Medicare at a high rate, while AI in mammography mostly relies on self-pay.<\/li>\n<li>Some health systems use value-based approaches to implement AI tools without direct insurance reimbursement, prioritizing efficiency and outcomes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who&#8217;ll pay for AI in health care? 3 trends to watch in 2026 https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/01\/02\/health-tech-trends-2026-who-pays-for-artificial-intelligence\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":173899,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/3-to-watch-1-1024x576.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-173898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173898"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173900,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173898\/revisions\/173900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}