Improving Seniors’ Timely Access to Care Act of 2025
Summary, written by a model from the CRS summary
Requires Medicare Advantage plans to run electronic prior authorization programs, report approval rates and response times, and meet timeliness standards. CMS must also report on how AI-driven prior authorization decisions affect patient access.
Model-rated AI relevance 45%.
Sponsored by
Mike KellyRepublicanPAData as of: bills Sep 9, 2026 · votes Sep 11, 2026 · statements Sep 9, 2026. What changed
Progress
Introduced
May 20, 2025
Reported by committee
Jul 15, 2026
Passed House
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Passed Senate
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Became law
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Latest action · July 15, 2026
Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute by the Yeas and Nays: 42 - 0.
Recorded votes
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What members said
Releases that cite this bill first, then releases on the same topics.
Warnock calls for a statewide moratorium on AI data center construction unless projects guarantee no utility cost hikes, no NDAs, no tax giveaways, and no pollution.
Source ↗Hawley is investigating AI surveillance camera companies, arguing Congress never authorized these invasive AI-driven networks and that corporate self-policing is an inadequate safeguard.
Source ↗Barrett's bipartisan Doctors Not AI Act would bar AI from making medical-necessity insurance denials and require disclosure of AI use.
Source ↗Evans promotes American open-source AI leadership against China while adding commonsense consumer guardrails and mandated federal risk assessments of adversary models.
Source ↗Landsman's Doctors Not AI Act would keep licensed clinicians, not algorithms, in charge of medical-necessity decisions with transparency for patients.
Source ↗Schrier's Doctors Not AI Act would require doctors rather than AI systems to make health coverage decisions, with oversight and disclosure.
Source ↗Harrigan backs bipartisan monitoring of self-improving AI through NIST while stressing the bill imposes no new mandates and won't impede innovation.
Source ↗Jacobs introduces bipartisan legislation creating a DoD-wide AI incident and vulnerability reporting program to make military AI safer and more accountable.
Source ↗Bill data read 2026-09-09T02:09:45.522Z