Autonomous Coding: Towards a Promising Future of Medical Coding
Medical coding is, perhaps, the most crucial and labor-intensive part of revenue cycle management, requiring skilled and certified resources. The United States is the world’s largest market for medical coding and is expected to expand from 2022 to 2030 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8 percent. However, the coding process has become […]
A Case for Autonomous Coding versus Computer-assisted Coding
Prior to 1980, coding was a paper-based, time-consuming, error-prone, and inefficient process with limited practical alternatives. This soon changed with the 1980s technology boom, which brought about a protracted shift to ICD-10-CM/PCS and fundamentally changed the process and scale of gathering and managing patient data. It is essential to draw a distinction between simple, primitive […]
