Dylan Reid Media

About Me

I work where AI meets reimbursement and prior authorization. My job is simple: help teams understand what their AI is doing, make sure it follows the rules, and keep patients, clinicians, and payers from being hurt by bad decisions.

I’ve spent years around healthcare, policy, and technology—supporting patient advocacy, appropriations work, and public affairs consulting. That means I understand how decisions get made, funded, and communicated in the real world.

Outside of AI and healthcare, I’m a registered songwriter with BMI, writing modern country music. I split my time between Dallas, Naples, Palm Springs, New York City, Toronto, and Nashville.

Tools & Projects

I build simple tools that help teams understand, test, or explain their AI systems. Here are a few examples:

ICD‑10 Explorer

A fast, lightweight tool for searching ICD‑10‑CM codes with clean filters, autocomplete, and structured detail pages. Built with Python, SQLite, SQLAlchemy, and Streamlit. It ingests the official ICD‑10‑CM source files, cleans them up, stores them in a structured database, and exposes everything through a clean, reactive UI.

Coding Validator — Synthetic Healthcare Claims Demo

A small demonstration of how claim validation can work using synthetic patient data, transparent rule logic, and FDA‑aligned governance thinking. All patient data is synthetic and does not represent real individuals.

Prior Authorization App

A simple Java application that shows how prior authorization logic can work in software. It includes a small rules engine, a basic UI, and an audit log. It gives a clear view of how UM decisions can be structured, explained, and recorded.

Congress AI — Healthcare & AI Legislation Chatbot

A retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG) system that lets you ask natural‑language questions about how members of Congress are engaging with healthcare and AI legislation across the 118th and 119th Congresses.

See More on GitHub

News & Updates

Here’s a quick look at what I’ve been writing and working on lately across AI, healthcare, and policy.

Recent Writing

Introducing Dylan Reid Media — Why I started this work, what I focus on, and how I help teams use AI safely in healthcare. Read on Substack
We Keep Blaming Insurers. We Won’t Talk About Patients. — A plain‑spoken look at how patient behavior, incentives, and system design shape outcomes just as much as payers do. Read on Substack
Trust Doesn’t Rebuild Itself — Why trust in healthcare keeps eroding, and what it takes to rebuild it in an AI‑driven world. Read on Substack
The Constitution Wrote Us a Permission Slip in 1787 — A simple explanation of how the Constitution shapes federal authority over healthcare and technology. Read on Substack

Recent Projects

ICD‑10 Explorer — A fast, lightweight tool for searching ICD‑10‑CM codes with clean filters and structured detail pages.
Congress AI — A RAG system that lets you explore how lawmakers talk about healthcare and AI legislation.

For more updates, you can follow my writing on Substack or connect with me on LinkedIn.

Services

What I Do

I help health systems, payers, and AI product teams make sure their AI systems follow the rules when they’re used for reimbursement, claims, coding, and prior authorization. I help you understand what your AI is doing, keep you out of trouble, and make sure everything lines up with CMS and FDA expectations.

Who I Help

Health systems
Payers and health plans
AI product teams
Compliance and risk teams
Groups working near CMS and health policy

Problems I Solve

Figuring out how CMS rules apply to your AI models.
Understanding what the FDA expects from AI and how that affects reimbursement.
Making sure AI used in claims, coding, or prior authorization behaves the way it should.
Explaining AI decisions in plain English.
Avoiding mistakes that could cost money or slow things down.
Setting up simple oversight so nothing slips through the cracks.
Helping teams talk about AI clearly with clinicians, executives, and partners.

How I Work

I look at how your AI makes decisions, compare that to what CMS and the FDA expect, and point out anything that could cause problems. Then I help you fix it. Everything I build is meant to be used right away—no long reports, no confusing jargon.

What You Get

A clear framework for how to manage and oversee your AI.
Guidance that matches CMS and FDA expectations.
Simple ways to explain how your AI works.
A list of risks and practical ways to handle them.
Oversight steps so your team knows who’s responsible for what.
Clear language you can use with leadership, clinicians, and partners.

Schedule a call to talk through what you need.

Why Work With Me

I work where AI meets reimbursement and prior authorization, helping teams avoid mistakes that can affect patients, clinicians, and payers.

My background spans patient advocacy, appropriations, and public affairs consulting, so I understand how healthcare decisions are made, funded, and communicated. I’ve worked with leaders across healthcare, policy, and technology, giving me a clear view of how reimbursement and prior authorization decisions affect real people.

I translate complex AI, policy, and regulatory issues into language that executives, clinicians, and policymakers can act on. My goal is always the same: make AI safer, clearer, and easier to trust.

Professional Affiliations

NIST RMF Critical Infrastructure Community — people working on risk, safety, and how to keep critical systems running the right way.
Society of Young Health Policy Professionals — a national group focused on healthcare policy and innovation.
All Tech Is Human — a global community advancing responsible technology.

Dylan Reid

President, Dylan Reid Media