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Issue in 5 Series ## The Health Tech Investment Act: Modernizing Medicare for AI-Enabled Care Button Featuring Peter Weems of AdvaMed, this episode explains how the Health Tech Investment Act creates a clearer Medicare payment pathway for AI-enabled medical technologies. ## Why This Matters Medicare’s current payment system was not designed for modern, software-driven medical technologies. As a result, innovative AI-enabled tools often face unclear or delayed reimbursement — slowing adoption even when the technology is FDA-cleared and clinically valuable. The Health Tech Investment Act aims to fix that gap by creating a predictable, time-limited Medicare payment pathway for certain algorithm-based healthcare services. This gives patients faster access to innovation while providing providers and developers the clarity needed to invest, deploy, and evaluate new technologies responsibly. 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