Health Tech Investment Act

This bill changes how Medicare pays hospital outpatient departments for health care services that use FDA-cleared or FDA-approved devices with artificial intelligence, machine learning, or similar software to help doctors screen, detect, diagnose, or treat disease. Starting January 1, 2026, these services would be placed in a temporary 'new technology' payment category based on costs reported by the manufacturer, such as invoice or subscription prices, staff, and overhead. Medicare could not move a service out of that category until enough claims data exists, and in no case before it has been paid under that category for at least 5 years. The bill also requires Medicare to treat qualifying AI services that are performed alongside another service as eligible for the category, and it puts into law an existing 2022 Medicare payment policy for software as a service.

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Sponsors

• John Joyce Republican sponsor
• 7 cosponsors