WASHINGTON, April 27 -- Sen. Maria Cantwell issued the following press release:
Today, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA), senior member of the Senate Finance Committee and ranking member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, called on U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to urge greater transparency and quicker care through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services's (CMS) new artificial intelligence (AI) driven prior authorization program, called the Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction (WISeR) Model.
"By CMS's own benchmark, the model is not meeting expectations in Washington state which is resulting in significant burdens on patients and providers. For instance,...