Pennsylvania lawmaker to propose bill that regulates AI in healthcare
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Pennsylvania lawmaker to propose bill that regulates AI in healthcare
Updated: 11:33 AM EST Nov 12, 2025
A Pennsylvania lawmaker is seeking to regulate the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare, according to the memo. Senator Nick Pisciottano, who represents District 45, announced plans to introduce legislation to regulate the use of AI in healthcare across the state, addressing concerns about bias and discrimination. The memo states that AI is being used by hospitals and clinicians in patient care, billing and coding, and research, and by insurers in claims processing, utilization management, and evaluation of cost-effectiveness of clinical interventions.Pisciottano highlighted the need for Pennsylvanians, especially patients, to have confidence in the beneficial use of AI while minimizing adverse consequences. “There is already evidence that AI can reinforce bias and discrimination in healthcare and that insurers, hospitals, and clinicians could overly rely upon AI in their activities without an individualized clinical assessment ultimately made by a human decisionmaker,” said Pisciottano. The proposed legislation will require the following framework for the application of AI in healthcare across the Commonwealth. Transparency to patients and the public regarding the circumstances under which AI is used by insurers, hospitals, or clinicians. Ensure there is an ultimate individualized assessment and decision by a human decision-maker in any use of AI. Insurers, hospitals, and clinicians will be required to attest to the Department of Insurance or Department of Health that they have minimized bias and discrimination in their use of AI, providing evidence of their efforts to their respective regulators.
A Pennsylvania lawmaker is seeking to regulate the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare, according to the memo.
Senator Nick Pisciottano, who represents District 45, announced plans to introduce legislation to regulate the use of AI in healthcare across the state, addressing concerns about bias and discrimination.
The memo states that AI is being used by hospitals and clinicians in patient care, billing and coding, and research, and by insurers in claims processing, utilization management, and evaluation of cost-effectiveness of clinical interventions.
Pisciottano highlighted the need for Pennsylvanians, especially patients, to have confidence in the beneficial use of AI while minimizing adverse consequences.
“There is already evidence that AI can reinforce bias and discrimination in healthcare and that insurers, hospitals, and clinicians could overly rely upon AI in their activities without an individualized clinical assessment ultimately made by a human decisionmaker,” said Pisciottano.
The proposed legislation will require the following framework for the application of AI in healthcare across the Commonwealth.
Transparency to patients and the public regarding the circumstances under which AI is used by insurers, hospitals, or clinicians. Ensure there is an ultimate individualized assessment and decision by a human decision-maker in any use of AI. Insurers, hospitals, and clinicians will be required to attest to the Department of Insurance or Department of Health that they have minimized bias and discrimination in their use of AI, providing evidence of their efforts to their respective regulators.