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Senate declines to take up repeal of Medicare’s AI prior-authorisation pilot

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Source: US Senate (roll call vote 199)Also reported by Becker’s Payer Issues, Fierce Healthcare

The Senate voted 46 to 50 on 16 July 2026 against a motion to proceed to S.J.Res. 198, a Congressional Review Act resolution led by Senator Ron Wyden to repeal CMS’s WISeR model, the AI-assisted prior-authorisation pilot that began on 1 January 2026 in Arizona, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas and Washington and runs to the end of 2031. The vote split along party lines. The route to a vote opened in May, when the Government Accountability Office found the model is a rule under the Act. CMS has said clinicians, not algorithms, have the final say on denials.

Why it matters

WISeR continues in all six states, and the only way left to stop it in Congress is through spending bills.

When
16 Jul 2026
ID
WTA-N-2026-0294
Who
US Senate, CMS, GAO; Ron Wyden

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from US Senate (roll call vote 199) and the reporting credited above. Checked against the source on 14 Oct 2026.

Read the original at US Senate (roll call vote 199)

Source copy: download the page as saved on 18 Oct 2026 (PDF). Also held by the Internet Archive.

Earlier in this Storyline: What led hereMedicare starts WISeR, an AI-assisted prior-authorisation pilot in six states

Cite this story

WTA-N-2026-0294: “Senate declines to take up repeal of Medicare’s AI prior-authorisation pilot.” wheresthe.ai, 16 Jul 2026. https://wheresthe.ai/d/us-senate-wiser-cra-vote-2026-07/ (source: US Senate (roll call vote 199)).

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