Daily Update for September 15, 2026 — Physician in the Loop

California awaits governor's action on AI practice bills; WISeR vendor under corrective plan; 72% of health systems report unsanctioned AI; Conifer cuts 1,037 billing jobs

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California's governor has until Sept. 30 to act on Assembly Bill 1979, which would bar artificial intelligence (AI) from independently performing work that requires a licensed professional or directing unlicensed staff to do it. The bill applies to health facilities, clinics and physician offices; under its terms, an AI system could not direct medical assistants or other unlicensed personnel to carry out licensed duties. Its companion, AB 2575, would protect clinicians who override an AI system and bar developers from blaming those clinicians when the system fails.

The WISeR records, the Waystar sale process and the ACCESS expansion had been covered in the baseline report. The fuller WISeR records show one vendor under a corrective action plan and a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) plan that considered extending AI prior authorization to MRI, cancer treatment and air ambulance, according to Fierce Healthcare and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). An Imprivata survey of 250 health system leaders found 72% have AI tools deployed without formal IT approval. Tenet's billing subsidiary is cutting 1,037 jobs, Healthcare Dive reported, and Tenet's chief executive has pointed to AI and offshoring. Waystar has hired Evercore to explore a sale, Reuters reported.

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