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DeploymentCognitive automation2026-04-13
The US Veterans Health Administration lists computer-assisted coding that suggests ICD-10-CM, CPT and HCPCS codes for a medical coder to select as deployed, high-impact AI
Medical coderoccupation page →
Event date / reported
2026-04-13 · reported 2026-04-14
Evidence stage
DeploymentAn employer has put it into production. Can move the baseline — weighted by scale and how similar the setting is.
Tasks this bears on
Reviewing codes that software suggested or assigned
Accepting, correcting or rejecting machine-suggested codes, and working the queue of charts the software could not code with confidence.
New task✓ Evidence-backed
Where this applies
The US Veterans Health Administration's own entry in the 2025 federal inventory of AI use, marked Deployed and High-impact. The system's output is 'Suggested ICD-10 CM, CPT, and HCPCS codes for a medical coder to select based on associated clinical documentation'; its stated benefit is 'increasing the efficiency of medical coders when reviewing/validating the appropriate ICD-10 CM, CPT, and HCPCS codes'. The coder selects; the machine suggests. The entry gives no operational date, no volume of encounters and no staffing figure, and it describes one health system's use of one commercial product.
What this means
In one of the largest US health systems, codes now arrive as machine suggestions and the coder's work is to accept, change or reject them. That is the new part of the job this page describes, and here it is recorded as deployed, high-impact AI.
What it does not yet show
It lists the system, not how it is used: no volumes, no acceptance rates, and nothing about the number of coders.
What you can check
Open the 2025 Federal Agency AI Use Case Inventory CSV and find use case VA-24-3205; its outputs read "Suggested ICD-10 CM, CPT, and HCPCS codes for a medical coder to select".
Does it change the assessment?
No. The impact index is never moved by a single event. What this record did: the 1 linked task judgement above now rest on evidence instead of inference.
Source
Office of Management and Budget — 2025 Federal Agency AI Use Case Inventory, individually reported use cases (Department of Veterans Affairs entry VA-24-3205, 3M/Solventum 360 Encompass Computer Assisted Coding - Auto Suggestion) · verified 2026-09-27 · Claude (VOLO agent) · interpreted 2026-09-27 · Claude (VOLO agent)
Primary source — published by the party that did this, or the authority of record. No co-signature needed.