{"id":138461,"date":"2026-08-13T08:51:48","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T08:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/138461\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T08:51:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T08:51:48","slug":"what-medicare-incentives-for-ai-based-devices-mean-for-tech-companies-and-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/138461\/","title":{"rendered":"What Medicare incentives for AI-based devices mean for tech companies \u2014 and hospitals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Katie covers the impact of health technology on patients, clinicians, and businesses. Her stories explore the price tag of clinical AI, digital health at the FDA, and the boom in direct-to-consumer telehealth. Confidential tips can be sent on Signal at palmer.01.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re reading Part 4 of Paying for AI, a series examining how new clinical artificial intelligence tools influence the affordability of health care and patients\u2019 long-term health. Here\u2019s Part 1<\/a>, Part 2<\/a>, and Part 3.<\/a><\/p>\n

For hospitals, the promise of artificial intelligence is financial as much as clinical. A hospital might deploy an AI device because it promises to throw up an alert that could save a patient\u2019s life \u2014 but the technology is far more likely to stick if it proves it can drive down costs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Convincing hospitals and health systems that a new technology will provide that return on investment is tricky, though. So some AI startups have benefited from a temporary sweetener that helps customers get on board: Certain new technologies can apply to get add-on payments from Medicare for two or three years after they come to market. The tax-dollar-funded payments are meant as an incentive to help get new, expensive medical technologies to patients.<\/p>\n

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