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Autonomous coding meets value based care.

Value based care lives on accurate documentation, complete capture, and timely submission. Three things autonomous coding does well. Here is how leading ACOs and risk bearing groups are using AI to lift HCC capture and quality reporting.

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VBC HCC Quality AI

Value based care lives on accurate documentation, complete capture, and timely submission. Three things autonomous coding does well. Here is how leading ACOs and risk bearing groups are using AI to lift HCC capture and quality reporting.

RAF SCORE LIFT WITH AI HCC CAPTURE 0.86 RAF, MANUAL 1.04 RAF, AI ASSISTED +0.18 RAF $420 PMPY UPLIFT

01 / VBCWhy VBC needs AI coding

Capture risk, capture quality.

Value based contracts pay on a combination of risk adjustment and quality scores. Both are documentation dependent. If the chart does not capture the chronic condition or the quality measure, the dollars are not paid. Manual coding misses 8 to 14 percent of capturable detail. AI closes most of that gap.

11%
HCC RAF LIFT
Median, year 1
3.2x
MEAT COMPLIANCE
Real time prompt
82%
QUALITY MEASURE
Auto captured

02 / HCCHCC capture in practice

Three problems AI solves.

MEAT documentation

AI prompts the physician at note time when MEAT is incomplete

Chronic condition recall

AI reads patient history and surfaces conditions that need annual reassessment

Audit trail

Every HCC code carries the chart phrases that support it, ready for RADV

03 / QUALITYQuality measures the AI sees

Auto captured at chart close.

MIPS quality measures
Auto captured
HEDIS gap closure
Identified
Star measures
Auto captured
Custom payer measures
Configurable

04 / CASESThree ACO case studies

Real numbers from real risk bearing groups.

Metric
Pre AI
Post AI
RAF accuracy
0.86
1.04
Quality score
78
91
Annual capture rate
72%
94%
Net contract uplift
baseline
$420 PMPY

05 / PLANAn 8 week deployment plan

Built for risk bearing groups.

STEP 01
Audit
Pull 250 charts, audit HCC and quality capture
STEP 02
Pilot
Cut AI live on one provider group
STEP 03
Tune
Calibrate real time prompts to provider workflow
STEP 04
Scale
Roll across the rest of the group on a 4 week cadence
Bottom line

HCC and quality capture is one of the highest dollar value applications of AI coding. The lift compounds annually because it changes RAF score and quality bonus in the same year.

Get an HCC capture audit

We audit 250 charts for HCC capture gaps and ship a written report with estimated annualized RAF dollars left on the table.