Fight to ensure patients can understand and challenge insurance care decisions and that a qualified medical professional is ultimately accountable for those decisions.

Tom Barrett · Michigan · Republican

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Commitment kind: outcome. Promised action: Fight to ensure patients have a clear path to understand and challenge insurance care decisions.. Promised outcome: Patients can understand and challenge insurance care decisions and have confidence that a qualified medical professional is ultimately accountable.. Deadline: unknown; not assumed expired. Official House blog post as U.S. Representative for Michigan's 7th District, discussing the Doctors Not AI Act and AI use in insurance claim reviews.

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That’s why I’m fighting to ensure all patients have a clear path to understand and challenge those decisions — and confidence that a qualified medical professional is ultimately accountable for them.

Barrett commits to fighting for patients to have a clear way to understand and challenge insurance care decisions, with a qualified medical professional ultimately accountable.

Protecting Patients From AI Insurance Denials | Representative Tom Barrett
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Action Mr. Landsman (for himself, Mr. Carter of Georgia, Ms. Schrier, and Mr. Barrett) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Education and Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned Bill Number H.R. 10210 Bill Version Introduced in House (IH) Short Title Doctors Not AI Act of 2026 Full Title To amend title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to regulate the use of artificial intelligence in the review of claims by group health plans and health insurance issuers offering group or individual health insurance coverage.

Barrett is listed as a cosponsor of legislation to regulate the use of artificial intelligence in health insurance claim reviews.

H.R. 10210 (IH) - Doctors Not AI Act of 2026 - BILLS-119hr10210ih | Content Details | GovInfo
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Evidence

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Mr. Landsman (for himself, Mr. Carter of Georgia, Ms. Schrier, and Mr. Barrett) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Education and Workforce

Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): GovInfo records H.R. 10210 as introduced on September 1, 2026, with Tom Barrett as an original cosponsor, and referred to committees rather than enacted.

unresolved same_term A for effort

H.R. 10210 (IH) - Doctors Not AI Act of 2026 - BILLS-119hr10210ih | Content Details | GovInfo
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A group health plan and a health insurance issuer offering group or individual health insurance coverage shall ensure that any adverse benefit determination, whether initially or upon appeal, involving clinical judgment— “(1) is not issued by an artificial intelligence system

Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): The introduced bill directly targets adverse benefit determinations in health insurance and bars AI from issuing or determining such clinical-judgment decisions.

unresolved same_term A for effort

H. R. 10210 (Introduced-in-House)
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made only by a licensed health care professional who is acting within the scope of the professional’s license and who has training and experience in the provision of the health care item or service that is the subject of the determination

Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): The bill text matches the commitment’s requirement that a qualified medical professional be accountable for insurance care decisions.

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H. R. 10210 (Introduced-in-House)
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includes, in the notice required under section 2719, if an artificial intelligence system was used in connection with the determination— “(A) a statement that such system was used; “(B) a description of its role in the review process

Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): The bill would require disclosure to patients when AI was involved and describe AI’s role, addressing transparency and ability to understand/challenge decisions.

unresolved same_term A for effort

H. R. 10210 (Introduced-in-House)
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such materials shall be considered part of the administrative record and made available to the enrollee upon request.

Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): The bill would make AI-related documentation part of the administrative record available to enrollees, supporting appeal or challenge rights, but it remains only introduced legislation.

unresolved same_term A for effort

H. R. 10210 (Introduced-in-House)
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The amendments made by this Act shall apply to plan years beginning on or after January 1 of the first calendar year beginning not less than 12 months after the date of the enactment of this Act.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The bill’s own effective-date clause depends on enactment; no official source found in the lookback window shows enactment or passage, so the commitment remains unresolved despite concrete effort.

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H. R. 10210 (Introduced-in-House)
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Public state: pending As of 2026-09-16 · verified · . Original AI recommendation (not independently established): unresolved. same_term A for effort

Verified evidence shows Barrett was named among members for whom H.R. 10210, the Doctors Not AI Act, was introduced and referred to committees, and the bill text would address the promised transparency, challenge, and qualified medical professional accountability requirements. However, the verified passages show only introduction and referral, not enactment or an implemented patient right. Because this was an outcome-oriented commitment and there is no verified enacted outcome as of 2026-09-16, the promise remains unresolved, with documented same-term effort attributable to Barrett.

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