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Paper and checkbox anesthesia forms: the autocoder now reads the page image
Work processed after carries this change.
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| Status | Kind | What changed | Version | Ticket | Date |
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| Released | New | Paper and checkbox anesthesia forms: the autocoder now reads the page image | No version | No ticket |
Work processed after carries this change.
Some anesthesia records are printed forms with checkboxes, bubbles, and pre-printed option grids, for example the Graphium anesthesia record and the Graphium "Outside of OR / Patient Visit" form. Text extraction from these forms keeps every printed label but loses which boxes were marked. Before this change, the autocoder could read an empty option as a service. Examples from real records: an unticked "Labor Epid to C-Section" box became a cesarean anesthesia charge with the labor epidural, an empty "A-Line" row became an arterial line, and an empty emergency box became qualifying circumstance 99140.
Now, at facilities that submit these forms, the autocoder receives the page image together with the extracted text on every coding request. It can see which options were marked. On the same labor epidural record it now bills the labor epidural only.