Revenue Integrity and Autonomous Coding: What to Set Up During Implementation and Best Practices Post-Go-Live
Autonomous coding is moving from pilot to production at more health systems, and revenue integrity teams are often brought in late. Yet many of the decisions that determine whether a deployment protects revenue or leaks it belong to revenue integrity: where each charge originates, how the chargemaster aligns with the codes assigned, and how results are audited after go-live.
On December 15, 2026, from 1-2 p.m. Eastern, Torrie Autin, Manager of Documentation Excellence at Ochsner Health, will share how coding and revenue integrity work together after four years of autonomous coding in Ochsner’s emergency departments, and what she would tell a team preparing for its own go-live.
Kacie Geretz, RHIA, CPMA, CPC, CCA, Director of Growth Enablement at Nym, grounds the session in the fundamentals: what autonomous coding is and how it differs from computer-assisted and AI-assisted coding. She then maps where revenue integrity belongs before go-live, from identifying charge sources to setting baselines, and what to monitor once autonomous coding is live.
You will leave knowing how autonomous coding affects charge capture, chargemaster maintenance, denials, and audits, and which questions to bring to your coding and HIM counterparts.
Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of this program, participants will be able to:
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Describe how autonomous coding works, how it differs from computer-assisted and AI-assisted coding, and where it touches revenue integrity work such as charge capture, chargemaster maintenance, and claim edits.
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Identify the decisions revenue integrity should own before go-live, including charge source mapping, chargemaster-to-code alignment, payer-specific rules, and baseline KPIs.
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Explain how to monitor and audit autonomous coding after go-live, including which KPIs to track and why autonomous coding output needs a different audit approach than coder output.
Speakers
- Kacie Geretz, RHIA, CCA, Director of Growth Enablement, Nym
- Torrie Autin, RHIT, CCS, Manager of Documentation Excellence, Ochsner Health