Cleveland Clinic is partnering with revenue cycle automation company Akasa to deploy generative AI tools to “support efficient and accurate medical coding practices.”
Through the partnership, the health system will apply multiple Akasa AI-powered tools during the mid-revenue cycle across its U.S. locations, according to an April 29 Cleveland Clinic news release.
Cleveland Clinic’s revenue cycle staff typically review more than 100 clinical documents per case and then select codes from more than 140,000 options, according to the release. The process can take up to an hour per patient encounter. With the partnership, coders will be able to use an AI assistant tool that supports comprehensive, efficient and accurate coding practices.
The system and Akasa are also piloting another AI tool that is focused on clinical documentation integrity.
“We chose to pilot this technology with Cleveland Clinic because we wanted to test our AI against some of the most complex patient encounters in the world,” Akasa CEO Malinka Walaliyadde said in the release. “We are proud to now be rolling it out, as well as collaborating with Cleveland Clinic’s coders and CDI specialists in developing additional products to make the revenue cycle process easier and more efficient.”
