ASNC Delegates Help American Medical Association Shape AI and Prior Auth Policies

At last week’s American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates meeting, policies addressing artificial intelligence (AI) dominated the agenda.

ASNC Delegates Ahmet Afsin Oktay, MD (left), and Suman Tandon, MD, FASNC (right), represented nuclear cardiology at the June 2026 American Medical Association House of Delegates meeting.

Representing nuclear cardiology, ASNC Delegates Ahmet Afsin Oktay, MD, and Suman Tandon, MD, FASNC, voted in support of an AMA policy that would foster transparency and collaboration with stakeholders, including artificial intelligence developers and medical societies, to establish standards and a framework for evidence attribution, evaluation, and validation in AI clinical decision support systems. The House of Delegates, with ASNC support, also adopted a new policy encouraging training on the utility and potential harms that could be introduced into medical records from extensive use of AI-generated clinical notes.

The House of Delegates continues to be concerned about payers’ increasing use of AI and algorithmic tools to deny care or reduce coverage. Going forward, the AMA will ramp up efforts to pass federal and state legislation requiring health plans and third-party payers to provide physicians and patients with the specific clinical logic, evidence-based sources, and version histories of all AI use in adverse coverage determinations. The AMA will also push for transparency around AI audits, where the priority is ensuring use of current evidence-based guidelines and recognized standards of care.

ASNC also expressed support for a resolution that would have the AMA advocate against delay or interference by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) or the executive branch in the approval or apportionment of funds appropriated to the National Institutes of Health, pursuant to a proposed rule recently released from the OMB on Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance. ASNC will submit comments to the OMB on the topic as well. Stay tuned for ASNC’s comment on the proposed rule.

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