STAT's Health Tech newsletter reports on an investigation into Commure, a company using artificial intelligence to automate healthcare administration, and highlights Medicare's new incentives for AI-e…
Medicare's temporary add-on payments for new AI-based medical devices are helping AI startups convince hospitals to adopt their technologies, according to a STAT series on AI in health care. The payme…
In a Fast Company op-ed, Democratic strategist and former Obama administration official David Axelrod argues that the AI debate is fundamentally about control, not technology, citing that 80% of voter…
More than 40% of Australian doctors now use AI scribes that generate medical notes from consultations, according to a new report by Digital Rights Watch, but the tools raise serious concerns about pat…
A developer running a small training platform found that a bug in the evaluation harness, not the models, was preventing five open-source models from passing a 54-task exam. The same pattern repeated …
Senate Republicans blocked a Democratic attempt to end a Trump administration pilot program that uses artificial intelligence to approve or deny physician-ordered care in Medicare, with a 46-50 vote o…
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, speaking at Sydney University, framed Australia's approach to artificial intelligence as a continuation of the nation's tradition of bold, homegrown reform, citing Med…
Medicare and Medicaid are losing billions of taxpayer dollars to international criminal networks using AI voice bots, hacked patient data, and synthetic identities, a New York Post investigation found…
A growing number of Americans are using AI chatbots for financial advice, but a 2025 survey found 19% lost over $100 by following such guidance. Finance professor Dr. Jain warns that chatbots' confide…
A Las Vegas nurse practitioner, Marizel Yukee, was charged in a $906 million healthcare fraud scheme that used stolen funds to buy a $594,000 Ferrari and an $865,000 necklace. The Department of Justic…
Federal officials charged seven Southern Californians with defrauding Medi-Cal and Medicare of millions of dollars through false claims for prescription drugs, hospice services, and medical tests, as …
Cadence, a startup using AI to manage chronic disease, raised $100 million in a Series E round led by Spark Capital, valuing the company at $1.2 billion. The company claims its platform saves Medicare…
According to Reason, industry claims that artificial intelligence will generate enough productivity, tax revenue, and savings to close the federal deficit are optimistic and unlikely to produce the tr…
GLP-1 drug use peaks in middle age, with 22% of adults aged 50-64 taking them, then drops sharply to 9% at age 65 due to Medicare's ban on covering weight-loss medications. The overall adult usage rat…
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is funding a "DOGE-bros" initiative that aims to profit from Medicare hospice care by using AI to reduce care for dying patients, framing undertreatment as efficiency. The s…