Medicare just created a way to pay AI care agents between visits

No one had a government payment channel for AI agents

Medicare’s ACCESS model builds the first government mechanism to pay for AI care agents that support patients between appointments. It covers tasks like monitoring remotely, checking in with calls, coordinating housing referrals, and ensuring medication pickup—functions that typically fall outside traditional reimbursement. The result: a concrete path for AI-enabled care, long before most of tech even realized it existed.