Acta neurochirurgica
Jul 31, 2025
BACKGROUND: In the German medical billing system, surgical departments encode their procedures in OPS-codes. These OPS-codes have major impact on DRG grouping and thus mainly determine each case“s revenue. In our study, we investigate the ability of ...
Journal of medical Internet research
Jul 3, 2025
BACKGROUND: Clinical coding is critical for hospital reimbursement, quality assessment, and health care planning. In Scandinavia, however, coding is often done by junior doctors or medical secretaries, leading to high rates of coding errors. Artifici...
Seminars in neurology
Apr 28, 2025
Documentation, coding, and billing (claims submission) are foundational to neurologic practice in the United States, enabling accurate reimbursement, effective communication, and data-driven advancements in patient care, research, and education. Neur...
Journal of plastic, reconstructive & aesthetic surgery : JPRAS
Apr 23, 2025
BACKGROUND: Manual CPT coding from operative notes is a time-intensive process that adds to the administrative burden in healthcare. Large Language Models (LLMs) offer a promising solution, but their accuracy in assigning CPT codes based on full oper...
Computers in biology and medicine
Mar 14, 2025
ICD coding, which involves assigning appropriate ICD codes to clinical notes, is essential for healthcare tasks such as health expense claims, insurance claims, and disease research. Manual ICD coding is time-consuming and prone to errors, increasing...
JMIR human factors
Feb 12, 2025
BACKGROUND: The accuracy of the ICD-10-CM (International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification) procedure coding system (PCS) is crucial for generating correct Taiwan diagnosis-related groups (DRGs), as coding errors can l...
JMIR formative research
Feb 11, 2025
BACKGROUND: The International Classification of Diseases (ICD), developed by the World Health Organization, standardizes health condition coding to support health care policy, research, and billing, but artificial intelligence automation, while promi...
Artificial intelligence in medicine
Dec 7, 2024
Medical coding involves assigning codes to clinical free-text documents, specifically medical records that average over 3,000 markers, in order to track patient diagnoses and treatments. This is typically accomplished through manual assignments by he...
Academic radiology
Oct 15, 2024
INTRODUCTION: Original research in radiology often involves handling large datasets, data manipulation, statistical tests, and coding. Recent studies show that large language models (LLMs) can solve bioinformatics tasks, suggesting their potential in...
Annals of emergency medicine
Sep 24, 2024
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To use artificial intelligence (AI) to predict billing code levels for emergency department (ED) encounters.