The coder
Every code, next to the sentence that earns it.
Coda doesn’t guess codes from a note. It shows the exact wording that supports each one, flags what the documentation doesn’t yet support, and answers your questions with the references you’d look up yourself.
How the note gets written →Read the code beside its evidence
Open a case and every proposed code sits next to its support — the exact wording in the operative note, highlighted. Agree, and approve it. Disagree, and you can see precisely why it was proposed before you change it. No black-box suggestions, no unexplained percentages.
The gap between what was done and what was documented
A laparoscopic cholecystectomy is coded 47562. If the surgeon also performed an intraoperative cholangiogram but the note never documented its technique or findings, the higher code — 47563 — cannot be defended. Coda flags exactly that gap; the surgeon confirms what happened in their own words; the claim reflects the work that was actually performed.
That isn’t upcoding. It’s the documented truth, finally complete.
Checked twice — by the rulebook and by a second AI
The AI proposes; the rulebook checks. Bundling edits, mutually exclusive pairs, modifier and unit rules from the published coding rulebooks are enforced in code — deterministically, the same way every time — before a suggestion ever reaches you.
Then a second, independent AI auditor re-reads the case and challenges the first one’s work. Contested findings are logged, measured, and drained — the system is built to catch its own misses, not to defend them.
Gaps close before the case reaches you
Surgeons run a pre-coding check while the case is fresh: Coda surfaces documentation gaps as plain clinical questions — deliberately without mentioning codes — and folds the answers into the note. By the time a case lands in your queue, the queries you’d normally chase by phone are already answered.
How the note gets written →A coding auditor you can question
Ask why a code was proposed, whether the documentation supports an alternative, or what a descriptor actually requires — and get an answer grounded in the note in front of you and the ICD-10 and CPT references behind it. Every answer shows its sources. Every answer teaches — over time the queue gets easier, not just faster.
What defensible means here
Every approved code traces to documentation.
The evidence trail an auditor would ask for already exists, case by case.
Flags run in both directions.
Coda will tell you when the documentation doesn’t support a code — including one you were about to bill.
Documentation drives the codes — never the reverse.
Coda never proposes a code the note doesn’t support, and never asks a surgeon a leading question to manufacture support.
Everything is on the record.
Every access and every AI action lands in an append-only audit log.
Built for billers, not instead of them
Nothing is submitted without a biller’s approval. Coda prepares the case — evidence-linked codes, closed gaps, answered queries — so your team spends its judgment where it matters: the calls only a person should make.
Watch a case go from note to defensible claim
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