Kansas legislation · 2025-2026 Regular Session
Kansas SB467: Enacting the use of artificial intelligence in medical decisions transparency act and requiring that all medical necessity determinations be made by a competent licensed physician or healthcare professional
Status: In committee, April 10, 2026
What the bill says
An act concerning accident and health insurance; relating to utilization review; enacting the use of artificial intelligence in medical decisions transparency act; establishing requirements for the use of artificial intelligence by certain health insurers and utilization review entities; requiring that all medical necessity determinations be made by a competent licensed physician or healthcare professional.
From the introduced text, February 3, 2026:
AN ACT concerning accident and health insurance; relating to utilization review; enacting the use of artificial intelligence in medical decisions transparency act; establishing requirements for the use of artificial intelligence by certain health insurers and utilization review entities; requiring that all medical necessity determinations be made by a competent licensed physician or healthcare professional. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas: Section 1. (a) (1) This section shall be known and may be cited as the use of artificial intelligence in medical decisions transparency act. (2) This act shall apply to every health insurer and utilization review organization that uses an artificial intelligence, algorithm or other software tool for the purpose of utilization review or utilization management functions based in whole or in part on medical necessity or that contracts with or otherwise works through an entity that uses an artificial intelligence, algorithm or other software tool for the purpose of utilization review or utilization management functions based in whole or in part on medical necessity. (b) As used in this act: (1) "Act" means the use of artificial intelligence in medical decisions transparency act. (2) "Artificial intelligence" means an engineered or machine-based system that varies in level of autonomy and can, for explicit or implicit objectives, infer from the input that such system receives how …