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As physicians, payers and independent reviewers all adopt AI for utilization review and No Surprises Act disputes, audit trails and human oversight will determine which practices come out ahead.

A NAACOS and Innovaccer survey of 116 leaders also found only 21% are tracking which of their patients have enrolled in the new chronic care model.

Leaders of the Illinois College of Osteopathic Medicine at The Chicago School say students have to learn the health care system as it works today while training to change it.

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An OpenAI agent's unauthorized trip through an Australian Medicare data portal is a preview of the risks physicians take on as autonomous AI moves into prior authorization, billing and scheduling, and of what practices should demand from the vendors deploying it.

Adding a brief safety reminder cut potentially harmful clinical choices by large language models from 16.6% to 10.1% across more than 10 million responses, but researchers say it doesn't replace physician oversight.

What it takes for health systems and health plans to stay visible when an AI model is the one making the recommendation.

From AI scribes and coding habits to the claims payers quietly cut, these are the lessons physicians can take from four days of sessions and interviews at the Medical Group Management Association's centennial meeting.