RevCycle Intelligence February 12, 2024
Jacqueline LaPointe

Mount Sinai uses autonomous medical coding technology to code about half of pathology cases, with plans to increase volume and scale soon.

An experiment to streamline medical coding is set to take off at Mount Sinai Health System.

The academic medical system nestled in the New York metropolitan area recently implemented autonomous medical coding within its pathology department to streamline coding and bring efficiencies to care delivery. Now, the technology codes about half of the system’s pathology cases, with expectations that AI-enabled coding can do more for the system.

“There’s hope we reach about 70 percent of our pathology volume in the next year,” David S. Mendelson, MD, Mount Sinai’s vice chair for radiology information technology and associate CMIO for...

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