How to read the law map
What the map covers
The map records state statutes, agency and attorney general rules, and licensing-board and insurance-department policies on AI in health care, in five categories: payer and utilization review AI, patient disclosure of AI use, clinical decision and chatbot limits, mental health AI and data and privacy. A bill goes on the map once it has passed at least one committee, and a failed bill keeps its entry, marked failed.
The federal section records statutes, final and proposed rules, agency guidance, executive orders and CMS programs that govern or directly shape the use of AI in health care, and lists a bill in Congress once it has passed a committee.
Categories
The federal section records statutes, final and proposed rules, agency guidance, executive orders and CMS programs, in eight categories: devices and FDA oversight, clinical decision and chatbot limits, payer and utilization review AI, payment for AI, data and privacy, mental health AI, patient disclosure of AI use and government-wide AI policy, and lists a bill in Congress once it has passed a committee.
- Payer and utilization review AI
- Insurers', benefit managers' and utilization reviewers' use of AI, including prior authorization and claim denials.
- Patient disclosure of AI use
- Telling patients that AI is used in their care or in messages to them.
- Clinical decision and chatbot limits
- Limits on AI in clinical decisions and on health chatbots, including AI presenting itself as a licensed professional.
- Mental health AI
- AI in therapy and mental health care.
- Data and privacy
- Health and consumer data, biometrics, and data used to train AI.
- Devices and FDA oversight
- FDA's oversight of AI-enabled medical devices and software, including clinical decision support and change control plans.
- Payment for AI
- How Medicare pays for AI-enabled services, software and devices.
- Government-wide AI policy
- Executive orders, OMB memoranda and federal strategies that reach AI in health care, including preemption of state AI laws.
Statuses
Statuses: introduced (a bill filed, or a rule proposed), passed (passed the legislature, awaiting the governor), enacted (signed, or a rule adopted, with its main duties not yet in force), in force (its main duties apply now), failed (died, vetoed or withdrawn) and blocked (enjoined, stayed, or delayed with no new date). Federal items use the same statuses, shown as proposed or draft, final, in force or in effect, and withdrawn or revoked.
Sources and the physician read
Every entry links to its primary text first: the enacted bill or its page on the legislature's site, the rule, or the agency's page. A law firm's summary may follow, labeled secondary, but never stands alone. The physician read says what changes in practice and from when; it states duties and dates, not advice. The map is updated from the site's daily research, each entry shows the date its sources were last checked, and a mistake is corrected in place with a note.
Shading on the map
Shaded by the number of laws and rules enacted or in force.
A state with no entries was reviewed and nothing in scope was found; its page says so.
Calendars and data
Calendar of dates laws take effect (all states): subscribe or download the .ics file.
General information, not legal advice
This is general information, not legal advice. The whole map is available as data at /law-map/laws.json.