How AI chart review benefits teams across the practice

AI chart review isn't just another RCM tool: It's a dynamic platform that Charta custom-builds to deliver efficiency gains for teams across the practice. The chart below offers an executive overview of how teams are using Charta to solve challenges faced by most outpatient provider organizations.

Executive summary

AI is reshaping how healthcare providers run their businesses.

Leaders across the practice now have access to a host of powerful new tools for optimizing the way their teams operate. While AI promises to improve nearly every aspect of the fee-for-service healthcare business model, one of the applications that results in the highest leverage is AI-powered chart review.

This guide explains what AI chart review is and how it can enhance operations for multiple teams across the practice, including:

Finance & revenue cycle Care delivery & clinical quality Clinical & business operations Regulatory & payer compliance
The shift

What is AI chart review?

Historically, achieving comprehensive chart review for coding accuracy, documentation compliance, and clinical quality measures across every patient encounter was logistically impractical and cost-prohibitive. That’s why most provider organizations still rely on sample chart audits to identify and correct the coding mistakes and documentation deficiencies that lead to botched claims, missed revenue, and lapses in care standards.

AI has changed the equation. Technology based on advanced large language models (LLMs) makes it possible to scale detailed chart review across every patient encounter at a fraction of the cost of manual review.

Scaling up to 100% chart review is now not only practical; it’s imperative for overcoming margin compression and meeting heightened payer standards for care quality. Comprehensive review enables new financial and operational efficiencies, protects care delivery standards, and delivers performance insights that would otherwise remain hidden.

+11%
average increase in RVU per encounter
100%
of patient encounters reviewed pre-billing
Across the practice

Where AI chart review changes the work

Comprehensive, real-time review of every encounter enables transformative outcomes for teams across your practice. Click through each team to learn how.

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CFO & RCM leads

Finance & revenue cycle

ChallengeClinicians routinely undercode and underdocument notes.
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With AI chart reviewAI flags undercoded visits in real-time, before they become claims, resulting in an 11% average increase in RVU per encounter.
ChallengeRCM teams have to choose between remediating claims and absorbing loss.
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With AI chart reviewAI chart review guarantees revenue integrity at the pre-billing stage, enabling coding and billing staff to focus on denials and complex appeals.
ChallengeRevenue cycles are inconsistent and unpredictable.
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With AI chart reviewAI chart review generates more predictable revenue cycles by ensuring coding accuracy and identifying documentation gaps before billing, eliminating preventable denials.
ChallengeManual chart audits are too expensive and time-consuming to scale to every encounter.
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With AI chart reviewAI scales pre-billing chart review to 100% of all encounters without additional overhead. Chart review for autonomous coding and revenue discovery delivers ROI at scale.
ML

Medical Leadership

Provider oversight & performance

ChallengeClinicians have uneven coding proficiency and documentation practices.
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With AI chart reviewAI corrects coding errors and flags documentation gaps immediately after the provider closes a note. Providers are notified instantly of any required documentation improvements.
ChallengeManual chart review for provider oversight is tedious and time-consuming.
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With AI chart reviewAI autonomously replicates your processes for chart review, generating real-time data on coding accuracy, documentation compliance, care gap identification, and RVU per encounter.
ChallengeRetrospective, manual chart review generates lag time between performance and feedback.
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With AI chart reviewAI immediately reviews charts and auto-generates personalized provider feedback as soon as a provider closes a note, eliminating lag time between performance lapses and corrective action.
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Operations

Clinical & business operations

ChallengeRCM and clinical leadership lack comprehensive data for closing revenue gaps.
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With AI chart reviewUnified dashboards give RCM and medical leaders visibility into both revenue performance and clinical quality at the encounter level, as well as across sites and service lines.
ChallengeAdministrative burden adds to provider burnout.
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With AI chart reviewAI for autonomous coding delivers accuracy that eliminates rework. Clinicians are notified of documentation improvement needs immediately after a visit.
ChallengeTech modernization quickly leads to tech bloat.
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With AI chart reviewComprehensive AI chart review across clinical dimensions enables teams to replace multiple point solutions with a single platform for coding, compliance, and quality metrics.
ChallengeAI tools require appropriate governance.
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With AI chart reviewTop AI chart review solutions support customizations that include work queues for human-in-the-loop intervention wherever it’s deemed appropriate.
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Compliance

Regulatory & payer compliance

ChallengeRetrospective chart review for compliance doesn’t reduce audit exposure.
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With AI chart reviewAutonomous review across 100% of patient encounters enables compliance visibility and total risk avoidance at the pre-billing stage.
ChallengeCompliance must be balanced against administrative burden.
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With AI chart reviewAutomated corrections and real-time documentation alerts accelerate throughput by reducing provider administrative work while maintaining compliance standards.
ChallengeCompliance officers lack data to inform proactive partnership with RCM and medical leads.
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With AI chart reviewAI chart review provides a shared source of truth for simultaneously improving efficiency and compliance, driving alignment across teams.
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Executive

Practice leadership

ChallengeThin margins are further compressed by preventable revenue leak.
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With AI chart reviewAI ensures that CPT codes accurately reflect the value of the services delivered, resulting in fully compliant revenue uplift.
ChallengeRecruiting and retaining high-quality clinical staff is increasingly difficult amid shortages.
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With AI chart reviewAI chart review increases provider satisfaction by reducing administrative burden and after-hours work, and by creating a culture of excellence centered around accuracy and improvement.
ChallengeIn fee-for-service clinics, throughput must be balanced against patient safety and care quality.
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With AI chart reviewBy gaining visibility into compliance risk and care delivery across 100% of patient encounters, executives are more equipped to make decisions in the best interests of the practice.
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Quality

Clinical quality & care gaps

ChallengeData for clinical quality analysis is often fragmented across systems.
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With AI chart reviewAI gathers quality metrics and identifies care gaps at the pre-billing stage, surfacing real-time data in easy-to-read dashboards that eliminate the need for multiple exports and cross-referenced data sources.
ChallengeQuality audits are typically fractional, sample reviews of provider encounters.
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With AI chart reviewAI chart review gives quality leads real-time access to data on clinical quality metrics and care gap analysis across 100% of patient encounters.
ChallengeQuality leads operate with limited resources and often lack resources for dedicated software tools.
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With AI chart reviewAI chart review generates insights for teams across the practice by building clinical quality and compliance analysis into a comprehensive pre-billing review of every patient encounter.

About Charta

Charta uses AI to automate chart review across every patient encounter in real time. Built by CPC-certified engineers and validated by practices and provider groups across specialties, Charta enables healthcare organizations to increase RVUs by an average of 11% and reduce audit risk by up to 90%, at a fraction of the cost of manual chart audits. Learn more at www.chartahealth.com.

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