House Appropriations Committee takes aim at CMS’ WISeR pilot

Fierce Healthcare – Tuesday, June 9, 2026
By Paige Minemyer

A key legislative panel voted Tuesday to bar the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services from spending funds on a controversial prior authorization pilot.

In an amendment added to the broader appropriations bill for the Department of Health and Human Services after a unanimous vote, the House Appropriations Committee determined that “none of the funds made available in this Act or any other Act” should be used to implement the Wasteful and Inappropriate Services Reduction (WISeR) model, or another model that would add prior auth to traditional Medicare.

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