Issue Brief
10/25/26
Issue Brief: New Changes to Utah’s AI Regulatory Sandbox
This brief describes how Utah’s sandbox works, what the new evaluators are doing, and the five new agreements that will govern the new pilots.
09/6/26
Maverick’s Monitor: Helping You Keep Up With Health Policy
Maverick Health Policy is monitoring health tech policy issues every day. The following is a snapshot of the leading, most prominent topics from the last few months to help you prepare for events in September 2026, including Maverick's Health Tech Policy & Law Investor Day.
08/23/26
FAQs: The FDA’s Discussion Paper on GenAI-Enabled Medical Device Regulation
The FDA released a discussion paper to request feedback on proposed regulatory approaches for GenAI-enabled medical devices.
05/3/26
This memo serves as a primer for industry leaders engaging with the Health Information Technology Advisory Committee (HITAC). It covers the committee's structure, mandate, and membership — providing the context needed to engage effectively with HITAC and its work on behalf of the HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC).
04/19/26
CMS published two proposed rules. One is a proposed rule to extend the electronic prior authorization (ePA) requirements to prescription drugs. Another is a proposed payment rule that will create new financial incentives for hospitals to adopt ePA workflows.
04/12/26
Issue Brief: 2026 Prior Authorization Update
As federal rules, state legislation, litigation, and market activity enter a critical implementation and action phase, Maverick Health Policy is offering an update of prior authorization activity from early 2026.
03/22/26
HHS RFI on Accelerating AI in Clinical Care: Comment Letter Analysis
Maverick Health Policy reviewed several comment letters submitted in response to the HHS Request for Information (RFI): Accelerating the Adoption and Use of Artificial Intelligence as Part of Clinical Care. In the RFI, HHS solicited input on how the agency could use regulation, reimbursement, and research policy levers to accelerate safe and effective AI adoption in clinical care.
03/8/26
HTI-5 Proposed Rule: Comment Letter Analysis
Maverick Health Policy reviewed several comment letters submitted in response to the release of HTI-5, the proposed rule about certification criteria for health IT vendors that was issued by the HHS Assistant Secretary of Technology Policy and Office of National Coordinator of Health IT (ASTP/ONC) in December 2025. HTI-5 is designed to reduce the number of certification requirements, foster AI-enabled interoperability, and update information blocking definitions.
01/18/26
FAQs: Latest Proposed Rule on Transparency in Coverage
The three federal agencies that oversee health insurance, the U.S. Departments of Labor, Treasury, and Health & Human Services, published a proposed rule to update the Transparency in Coverage (TiC) requirements on December 19, 2025.
01/4/26
On December 18, 2025, the CMS Innovation Center (CMMI) released a Request For Applications (RFA) for the Advancing Chronic Care with Effective, Scalable Solutions (ACCESS) Model, to invite health tech companies and value-based care organizations to participate in a new Medicare payment pilot.