AI for Healthcare with Keras and Tensorflow 2.0: Design, Develop, and Deploy Machine Learning Models Using Healthcare Data

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4. Predicting Medical Billing Codes from Clinical Notes

Anshik¹  

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New Delhi, India

 

Clinical notes contain information on prescribed procedures and diagnosis from doctors and are used for accurate billing in the current medical system, but they are not readily available. We must extract them manually or use some assistive technology for the process to be carried out seamlessly.

This adds to the administrative costs for both the payers and providers. Providers alone spend roughly $282 billion on just the insurance and medical billing costs. Good record keeping and quality tracking is an added cost. Compared to the professional revenue associated ...