{"id":1932,"date":"2026-07-15T07:16:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T07:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/15\/will-ai-fix-prior-authorization-or-make-it-worse\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T07:16:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T07:16:00","slug":"will-ai-fix-prior-authorization-or-make-it-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/15\/will-ai-fix-prior-authorization-or-make-it-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"Will AI Fix Prior Authorization \u2014 or Make It Worse?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8220;broken&#8221; in the private sector, will be effective without causing dangerous delays for Medicare recipients.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bkbc-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/undark.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Undark Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}