Biomedical retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) can ground LLM answers in medical literature, yet long-form outputs often contain isolated unsupported or contradictory claims with safety implications. We introduce MedRAGChecker, a claim-level verification and diagnostic framework for biomedical RAG. Given a question, retrieved evidence, and a generated answer, MedRAGChecker decomposes the answer into atomic claims and estimates claim support by combining evidence-grounded natural language inference (NLI) with biomedical knowledge-graph (KG) consistency signals. Aggregating claim decisions yields answer-level diagnostics that help disentangle retrieval and generation failures, including faithfulness, under-evidence, contradiction, and safety-critical error rates. To enable scalable evaluation, we distill the pipeline into compact biomedical models and use an ensemble verifier with class-specific reliability weighting. Experiments on four biomedical QA benchmarks show that MedRAGChecker reliably flags unsupported and contradicted claims and reveals distinct risk profiles across generators, particularly on safety-critical biomedical relations.
@article{arxiv.2601.06519,
title = {MedRAGChecker: Claim-Level Verification for Biomedical Retrieval-Augmented Generation},
author = {Yuelyu Ji and Min Gu Kwak and Hang Zhang and Xizhi Wu and Chenyu Li and Yanshan Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.06519},
year = {2026}
}