Medical coding professionals are entering a pivotal moment in 2026 as the industry grapples with the April 1 ICD-10-CM guideline updates and the most extensive CPT changes in recent memory, featuring ...
Artificial intelligence is increasingly used in medical billing to suggest diagnosis codes to providers. This technology can lead to higher medical costs without a corresponding increase in patient ...
OpenEvidence released an artificial intelligence-powered medical coding feature embedded in its clinical AI assistant. The new feature, called Coding Intelligence, provides automatic Current ...
In 2026, medical coding saw two defining changes: the addition of 288 CPT/HCPCS codes that formalize billing for emerging AI and digital health services, and an April ICD-10-CM update that overhauled ...
Corti, maker of AI foundation models for healthcare, has released a new agentic model for medical coding that it says outperforms a number of Big Tech models. Symphony for Medical Coding outperforms ...
In part 2 of this article, we describe the growing importance of artificial intelligence tools in evaluation and management (E&M) services. We emphasize the importance of physicians proactively ...
AI coding tools are rapidly changing how we produce software, and the industry is embracing it—perhaps at the expense of entry-level coding jobs. Generative AI’s ability to write software code has ...
Recent changes to Medicare physician payment will lead to near-term payment increases for ‘cognitive services’ such as those delivered by primary care providers and relative decreases for ‘procedural ...