What You Should Know:
– Commure, a healthcare technology company, and Ob Hospitalist Group (OBHG), the nation’s largest provider of OB/GYNs, have formed a strategic partnership to deploy Commure’s Autonomous Coding solution across nearly 2,000 clinicians and over 200 care sites.
– Early results are compelling: within three months, clinicians reduced the time spent entering charges by an impressive 83%, with AI now coding over 85% of all charges. This deployment strengthens compliance and allows clinicians to focus on patient care rather than administrative tasks.
How AI Is Eliminating Charge Capture Friction for OB/GYN Hospitalists
The administrative burden placed on clinicians is a primary driver of burnout and time away from patients. For hospitalist groups, where time is measured in critical minutes, streamlining documentation and billing processes is an imperative for both quality and financial stability.
Ob Hospitalist Group (OBHG), the nation’s largest provider of OB/GYNs and customized women’s health solutions, is aggressively tackling this challenge through a strategic expansion with Commure, a leading healthcare technology company. The partnership focuses on deploying Commure’s Autonomous Coding solution across OBHG’s hospital footprint.
The AI Impact: Efficiency and Accuracy
Commure Autonomous Coding automatically generates medical codes from clinical documentation, including CPT codes, ICD-10 diagnoses, and modifiers. The impact on OBHG’s workflow has been immediate and striking:
- Time Savings: Clinicians reduced the time spent entering charges by 83% within three months.
- Automation Rate: AI now codes over 85% of all charges, demonstrating rapid trust and adoption.
- Accuracy and Compliance: Commure’s platform helps break the cycle of “familiar coding,” surfacing secondary diagnoses and specificities often overlooked in manual practice, thereby increasing accuracy and compliance.
“Autonomous coding helps us achieve that balance by accelerating coding accuracy while maintaining the highest standards for compliance and clinical oversight,” said Dr. Mark Simon, Chief Medical Officer at Ob Hospitalist Group. He emphasized that the technology is designed to support, rather than replace, the expertise of their clinicians.
Technology Built for the Front Lines
Commure’s Autonomous Coding is a key component of its broader AI platform, which unifies ambient documentation, agentic AI, and revenue cycle automation. This “documentation-first” process keeps clinicians focused on patient care while the AI handles the complex, time-consuming tasks of coding and documentation.
Tanay Tandon, CEO of Commure, highlighted the philosophy behind the deployment: “By intelligently automating the complex, time-consuming tasks of coding and documentation, we are empowering providers to spend less time battling bureaucracy. Autonomous coding is a technology built for the front lines to reclaim the essence of care”.
Deployment Plans
OBHG plans to roll out this technology to over 200 sites over the next 12 months, extending the efficiency gains to nearly 2,000 clinicians. Given Commure’s deep integration capability with over 60 EHRs and its ability to power billions in annual claims, this partnership serves as a powerful blueprint for how large provider groups can effectively scale AI to address their most persistent administrative challenges.
