Patent Document ID: 8676605
Application ID: 12519899
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for confirming accuracy of coders comprising: establishing a collection of medical documents as a test sample; determining, with a processor, a convergence of assigned medical codes for the test sample that have been assigned by a plurality of coders to establish a standard of one or more accepted medical codes for the test sample, wherein determining the convergence comprises: comparing, with the processor, each medical code assigned by the plurality of coders to other assigned medical codes; calculating an agreement amongst a number of coders from the plurality of coders for a given medical code assigned to the test sample, wherein the number of coders in agreement meets a certain percentage of the plurality of coders; applying the test sample to a coding system to obtain one or more determined medical codes for the test sample; and deriving with the processor a rate of accuracy of the coding system based on a correspondence between the determined codes and the accepted medical codes.