Solving for compliant and accurate coding automation: A sneak peek at HIMSS 2025
February 24, 2025 | Giannina Rachetta
The HIMSS 2025 Annual Conference is just around the corner, and we couldn’t be more excited to showcase how Solventum is revolutionizing autonomous medical coding by ensuring a comprehensive, compliant and accurate solution for healthcare systems.
Addressing staffing shortages and rising costs
The challenges hospitals and health systems face with coding staff shortages are becoming more pronounced every day. An AHIMA survey highlighted the impact these shortages have on revenue cycle departments, including reduced reimbursements, higher claim denials, and diminished data quality. Even more troubling, the administrative cost of reworking denials has reached nearly $20 billion annually, with each commercial denial averaging $63.76 to correct.
These challenges are worsened by constantly evolving healthcare regulations, compliance demands, and the growing specificity required for medical codes.
Expert-guided AI: The future of coding automation
In my previous blog post I outlined the importance of creating a complete, compliant coding automation environment for long-term success. Automating medical coding is no small feat, especially when it comes to maintaining compliance with complex regulations. Achieving a compliant and accurate final code set requires much more than assigning CPT® and ICD codes. Several critical factors must be integrated, including:
- Compliant coding guidelines
- Coding edits (including NCCI, MUE, LCD, APC, Medicare and more)
- Regulatory updates
- Facility specific rules
- Payer specific rules
- Comprehensive electronic health record (EHR) integration
Choosing the right technology partner
Selecting the right technology partner is a big first step in supporting compliant coding. When evaluating potential partners, consider the following key factors:
- Agility to quickly adapt to late breaking regulatory changes
- Trusted expertise in both clinical and technical domains
- Comprehensive, integrated solution rather than a “black box” approach
- Streamlined processes that expedite codes and charts across all visits
- Complete workflows that help handle visits that don’t qualify for full automation
- Intuitive quality assurance workflows
- Customer-defined validation parameters to keep you in control
- Lighting speed turnaround times for engine processing
Visit us at HIMSS 2025
If you’re attending HIMSS 2025, stop by and learn about Solventum’s autonomous coding solution. Let’s discuss your automation goals and explore how we can streamline your coding processes, increase your automation confidently, and improve your revenue cycle.
Solventum’s autonomous coding solution works seamlessly behind the scenes to qualify, curate and finalize outpatient visits and professional encounters, automatically passing them to the next step in the billing process with zero coder intervention. For cases that don’t qualify for autonomous coding, we’ve implemented a revamped semi-autonomous workflow, where flagged visits are queued for coder review.
Don’t miss out on the opportunity to discover how we’re solving the toughest challenges in medical coding — visit us at HIMSS 2025! Not attending HIMSS, but want to learn more? Let’s connect.
Giannina Rachetta, licensed scrum product owner (LSPO), is a senior product marketing manager at Solventum.
