Translation and Interpretation Services NAICS 541930

Nov 6, 2025 - Healthcare Related Language Service Changes may Cause Medical Errors

• Funding cuts by the Trump administration that have forced some healthcare providers to reduce their language services may result in more medical errors, misdiagnosis, neglect, and other adverse outcomes, according to experts including Mara Youdelman, the managing director of federal advocacy with the National Health Law Program. Language service reductions have created other problems, according to Youdelman. "We’ve really seen on the ground confusion," Youdelman told KFF Health News. "Healthcare providers and hospitals not knowing what this means for them and what they’re supposed to be doing, and patients not understanding that they still have the right to language services." Health providers that receive federal funds under the Affordable Care Act are required to make language services available. That includes making interpreters available to patients at no additional cost.
• The US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) will no longer provide any material in languages other than English, according to The New York Times. The move is part of the department's efforts to carry out President Trump’s executive order making English the country’s official language. Putting the executive order in place will “enhance social and economic integration,” Andrew D. Hughes, the deputy secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, reportedly wrote in a memo to employees. There will still be some instances where other languages may be permitted in HUD services to comply with the law, according to a copy of the memo reviewed by the New York Post. Those include accommodations required under the Americans with Disability Act and the Violence Against Women Act, which have nondiscrimination provisions that may apply to language in some situations. Critics have said the change could make it difficult for non-English speakers, including U.S. citizens, to access government services like affordable housing, health care and registering to vote.

• The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in real-time interpretation is a recent phenomenon that presents opportunities and challenges for translation and interpretation services, according to customer experience technology firm CX Today. Multilingual support traditionally involved either human interpreters or automated systems that often failed to meet the speed and accuracy required in a high-pressure customer service environment but the rise of AI-driven live interpretation enables understanding and translation of customer speech in real time. AI-driven interpretation also reduces the time needed for back-and-forth communication and removes the risk of misunderstandings that can arise from human translators, according to CX Today.
• Translation and interpretation service industry employment and average wages for nonsupervisory employees increased slightly during the first seven months of 2025, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. Translation and interpretation service industry sales are forecast to increase at a 0.31% compounded annual rate from 2025 to 2029, slower than the growth of the overall economy, according to Inforum and the Interindustry Economic Research Fund, Inc.