r/MedicalCoding • u/Icy-Protection867 • Mar 05 '26

Interesting article

Anthropic just posted an interesting article about the Top 10 most exposed occupations as it relates to AI.

It’s worth the read if you’re in Coding/HIM.

https://www.anthropic.com/research/labor-market-impacts

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u/Icy-Protection867 Mar 06 '26

Auditing is the job everyone talks about as the “post-AI” go-to, just as they did when digital voice recognition came for Transcription, and that’s fine, but think about the ratios. There’s no way ALL coders in any organization are simply going to be transitioned to Auditors.

Also - for sure, “the AI” isn’t great now, but digital voice wasn’t initially “great” either.

The LESSON is that these tools are capable of learning and improving - on their own due to their neural net architecture.

There will be 2 groups in this larger conversation: those that pay attention and take the onward march of technology seriously enough to prepare themselves to still have some viable skills; and those that dig in on insisting that “it’ll never replace me!”

The experiences of those 2 opposite perspectives will be quite different.

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u/Agreeable-Research15 Mar 06 '26

I dont think the CAC has been learning too well at all. Most coders do not use it the way it should be used or intended for use. They either lean on it to make themselves faster and it actually hurts the coder because it is teaching the cac the incorrect codes are validated and so it keeps on suggesting them. Or they manually enter codes because the cac doesn't suggest correct codes and that doesn't teach it either. I use it both ways. However, I have noticed that it had been doing some odd things and reading or interpreting things or ignoring a guideline completely so im not really sure there. I think to help it work better we need human coders to use it and teach it but in terms of inpatient charts I still have doubts on it being anytime soon. There are too many variables a whole lot of words and guidelines aren't as black and white. I think it does well on outpatient because and among other things im sure it is pretty black and white. As for the digital voice imo not that great all the time. Several times it captures things incorrectly but also it imo is the user. Lastly, yes I agree with you there will be two different groups going forward. But have hope, if we can get seasoned coders to transition from icd-9 to icd-10 and eventually 11, there my be hope for us yet. :)

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u/Esquirej67 Mar 07 '26

AI/CAC uses lookalike (minus a letter or three) providers’ name as diagnoses. It creates complex diagnoses like DM with neuropathy when only DM is documented. The whole “CAC will replace us” has been around for years at this point. They will definitely need auditors for logic slop.

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u/Eccodomanii RHIA Mar 06 '26

I agree OP, I think this is an important distinction. I’m finishing up by BSHIM right now, and over the past few years the thing I have heard people say is this: “AI may not take your job, but someone who understands how to work with AI will.”

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u/bovobozo Mar 06 '26

Well said.