Dates that matter

10:30 a.m. Eastern, 430 Dirksen. The nominee would inherit the generative-AI discussion paper (comments due October 19) and a new deputy commissioner for technology and AI, Jared Seehafer.

About 4,000 nurses, 6 a.m. to 8 p.m.; a yes vote allows a strike after a ten-day notice. The union tied its rallies to Mass General Brigham's AI forum; the Globe reports the dispute itself is wages and health insurance.

One day at the Waldorf Astoria, run by MAHA Center; speakers include NIH director Jay Bhattacharya and staff from Anthropic and OpenAI. Becker's reports sponsors get a private dinner with the speakers, HHS officials among them.

Sign or veto by September 30; effective January 1, 2027 if signed. Sponsored by the California Nurses Association; hospitals, insurers, and technology firms opposed.

Same end-of-session deadline as AB 1979 and AB 2575. SB 903 was presented September 9 after a 39 to 0 Senate vote and a 71 to 4 Assembly vote; SB 503 was presented August 30 after 39 to 0 and 70 to 1.

Alabama requires human review of payer utilization decisions and disclosure of AI use.

ACCESS is Original Medicare only. Doctronic's Utah agreement ran October 2025 to October 2026 and is renewable; the exact renewal date is not public.

Docket FDA-2026-N-7874.

Governance, policy, and implementation; the vendor-and-CIO view of what is being rolled out next.

11:59 PM Mountain. Watch for any reach into health care chatbots.

Remote monitoring employed-staff rule, conversion factor, G2211 modifier, software-as-a-medical-service payment, AI requests for information. The date is the statutory target.

First House of Delegates since the AMA-DiMe framework on the physician's role; expect AI liability and payment resolutions.

Autonomous-radiology and FDA AI sessions.

Regulation (EU) 2026/1744, the AI Omnibus, has been in force since July 27, 2026. Stand-alone high-risk systems follow on December 2, 2027, and AI built into regulated medical devices on August 2, 2028.

Mentioned in the long read as one of the few credentials worth the money.

Expect a fifth extension or a special-registration final rule in the fourth quarter.

Also on this date: the CMS prior-authorization API requirements and Georgia's SB 444, which bars coverage decisions based solely on AI.

Set by the comptroller's September 16 policy; CT Mirror reports the January 1, 2027 effective date. The comptroller plans to ask the 2027 legislature to extend it to all state-regulated plans.

Under Regulation (EU) 2026/1744. AI embedded in regulated medical devices follows on August 2, 2028.

The 2028 cliff for non-behavioral telehealth.