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The Weekly Edition
Each Monday: what moved in AI and medicine this week, in policy, research and public argument. Published on LinkedIn at 8 AM; each theme goes deep in the Standing Order, Tuesday through Thursday. This page keeps the record.
The editions
September 28, 2026
The payers received their first bill for AI in medicine
Blue Cross Blue Shield Association research puts the excess cost of AI-assisted hospital billing at roughly $942 million. Also in this edition: switching an AI tool off before it goes live, the first accreditation for AI governance in health systems, two frontier models on an anesthesiology board exam, and what Medicare may pay an algorithm.
September 21, 2026
Who pays for clinical AI? Who answers when it fails?
Same week, two arms of government, two parts of the same problem: a Medicare payment category for AI software, and California AB 2575 on the governor’s desk. Also: AI therapy’s evidence, PrecepTron’s 9,217 physician scores, and what health system leaders are writing down before the agent acts.
September 14, 2026
ARPA-H funds autonomous clinical agents. California AB 1979 would prohibit them.
Same week, same question, different answers. September 9: ARPA-H commits up to $62.7M to patient-facing autonomous clinical agents. September 4: California enrolls AB 1979 to bar them. Also: the FDA’s 3 sites for Viz HCM, Carter’s 1,189 nurses, and the npj Digital Medicine meta-analysis of 10 studies.
August 28, 2026
The Conversation We Never Had
The surrogate a patient chooses picks what the patient would have picked 44.7% of the time; a language model given the patient’s own documented values matched 72.6%. The first edition, with the week’s radar.
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