{"id":9467,"date":"2026-01-02T23:02:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T23:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/02\/health-tech-trends-2026-who-pays-for-artificial-intelligence\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T23:02:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T23:02:23","slug":"health-tech-trends-2026-who-pays-for-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/02\/health-tech-trends-2026-who-pays-for-artificial-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"STAT+: Who will pay for AI in health care? 3 trends to watch in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    STAT+: Who will pay for AI in health care? 3 trends to watch in 2026<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The health care industry is gearing up for a battle over whether and how clinical artificial intelligence should get paid for.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As of the end of September, the Food and Drug Administration has authorized <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/medical-devices\/software-medical-device-samd\/artificial-intelligence-enabled-medical-devices\">1,357 AI-enabled medical devices<\/a>. But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2024\/09\/30\/health-care-artificial-intelligence-payment-models\/\">very few of those tools<\/a> are actively paid for by insurers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some health policy experts and clinicians <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthaffairs.org\/content\/forefront\/paying-artificial-intelligence-health-care-setting-right-precedent-amidst-growing-use\">don\u2019t see that as a problem<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/01\/02\/health-tech-trends-2026-who-pays-for-artificial-intelligence\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Continue to STAT+ to read the full story\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Katie Palmer<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/01\/02\/health-tech-trends-2026-who-pays-for-artificial-intelligence\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STAT+: Who will pay for AI in health care? 3 trends to watch in 2026 The health care industry is gearing up for a battle over whether and how clinical artificial intelligence should get paid for.\u00a0 As of the end of September, the Food and Drug Administration has authorized 1,357 AI-enabled medical devices. But very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4494,69,2217,2212],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-9467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-to-watch","category-artificial-intelligence","category-health-tech","category-hospitals","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9467"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}