Autonomous Medical Coding
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Charta Health

Charta Health reviews the documentation for every encounter before billing, using large language models rather than a rules engine. For providers it codes each visit after the note closes, corrects coding directly in the EHR or queues problem charts for a person, and cites the supporting documentation on each suggestion; revenue discovery, payer compliance, clinical quality analytics, clinical documentation improvement and provider feedback run on the same review. For payers it handles retrospective and prospective risk adjustment, second pass QA, RADV audit management and HEDIS analytics.

Each implementation is configured by a Charta AI engineer around the client's own review criteria, and the models read handwritten notes, faxes and images as well as structured EHR data. Charta reports an 11 percent revenue uplift across pre billing chart review, names KidsCare Home Health, Third Eye Health and Family Care Center among its customers, and states HIPAA, SOC 2 and GDPR compliance, with reports available on request. Its chief medical officer is Caesar Djavaherian, a cofounder of Carbon Health.

AI Health Index verifiedSeptember 28, 2026
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Founded
2023
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Categories
autonomous-medical-coding, rcm-and-prior-auth
Indexed Products
Autonomous coding, Revenue discovery, Payer compliance, Risk adjustment, Automated second-pass & QA
Buyer Segments
Medical Group, Independent Practice, Payer
Assessment

Capability Axes

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AI Capability
AA on AI CentralityThe artificial intelligence is the product. Remove the model and there is nothing left to sell.
Vendor Published

Large language models do the reviewing. They read clinical documentation, extract its meaning and run analysis modules configured for each note type, and Charta contrasts this with rules engines that depend on rules their users write.

Reviewing every chart before billing, rather than a sample, is the product, and Charta says that was too costly to be realistic before AI. Without the models there is nothing left to sell.

DD on Autonomy and Oversight ModelNo oversight structure is published. An absolute claim that the system does not err grades here too, because a buyer who believes it will not build the review step that would catch a failure.
Vendor Published

Three modes are offered: coding every note autonomously after it closes, correcting coding directly in the EHR, or sending problem charts to a person, with citations to the supporting documentation on each suggestion. What makes a chart a problem chart, and so what reaches a human, is not described.

The product pages pair that autonomy with absolute claims. Charta reads all documentation 'to completely and accurately code every service', promises to ensure 'you code every service delivered', and asks 'what if you could guarantee revenue integrity and clinical compliance on every chart?'. Promises of completeness and accuracy on every chart work against the human review that catches a wrong or missed code.

BB on Model and Technology TransparencyThe approach or the suppliers are named without the version and update discipline behind them. Naming a supplier is the entry to this band both here and on Model Supply Chain Disclosure, which ask different questions of the same disclosure: who receives the data, and what produces the output.
Vendor Published

Per client tuning shapes each deployment. A Charta AI engineer configures analysis modules for each type of encounter note during onboarding, around the client's own review criteria, and the models read handwritten notes, faxes and images as well as structured EHR data, which older rules engines built on structured fields could not.

No model provider, version or evaluation method is given, and because each deployment is tuned to its client, performance at one organization says little about another.

CC on Model Supply Chain DisclosureThe architecture is described and no model provider is named. Naming a hosting provider alone does not lift a record out of this band. Record the host in the note, because it matters for residency and breach scope, and grade on the model layer, which is the question this axis is named for.
Vendor Published

Large language models tuned per client are the approach, and no party in the chain is identified: no foundation model provider, host or subprocessor list.

The GDPR compliance statement implies a record of processing activities exists, but no list of processors appears on the site, so the companies that receive complete encounter documentation are unknown to the client.

BB on Clinical and Operational EvidenceNamed deployments with dated outcome figures and enough method to test them, or published research short of independent validation.
Vendor Published

An 11 percent revenue uplift across pre billing chart review is Charta's headline figure, and named executives supply the rest: KidsCare Home Health reports a 25 percent cut in clinical management workflow duties, and Third Eye Health and Family Care Center report 90 percent more charts reviewed before billing. An FQHC case study found missed revenue on 25 percent of notes.

Pre bill coverage measures scope rather than accuracy, and none of the figures carries a baseline or outside audit. The one accuracy figure, 98 percent on payer risk adjustment coding projects, comes without a method, and none is given for provider coding, the work most of the revenue figures depend on.

CC on AI Safety and PHI StewardshipGeneral assurances of privacy and security that do not answer the questions artificial intelligence raises: what is retained, what reaches a model, and what happens to it there.
Vendor Published

The whole chart passes through the platform. Charta reads all provider documentation for every encounter, faxes and scanned images included, and tunes each implementation on the client's review feedback; its FAQ states HIPAA, SOC 2 and GDPR compliance.

Retention, de identification, whether client documentation trains models used for other clients, and which model provider receives the notes are not stated. Citations on each suggestion are the only safeguard against invented content that Charta describes.

Regulatory and Compliance
CC on HIPAA and BAA PostureA status is stated but not supported: compliance is claimed, or business associate status stated, without the underlying document, including where the only privacy notice published covers the website rather than the service that handles patients. The mirror case grades here as well: a substantive privacy document that reaches the service, with no statement of business associate status anywhere and no scope position taken. One of the two elements the band above asks for is present, which is a grade below it and not a grade at the floor.
Vendor Published

HIPAA compliance is answered yes in the FAQ. No business associate statement, agreement or privacy document covering the service appears on the site, so the terms under which Charta handles PHI cannot be read before contracting.

Those terms would govern complete encounter documentation, since Charta reviews every note rather than a sample.

BB on Security Certifications and Trust CenterA recognized certification is named in the vendor own material without the artifact, or with a scope or renewal question the buyer has to raise. A recognized certification here is an audit of how the vendor operates security, such as SOC 2, HITRUST or ISO/IEC 27001. A certification has a scope and a clock, and both are part of this grade. A certification the vendor attaches to its data center, hosting facility or cloud provider, rather than presenting as its own, is the host's and does not count here.
Vendor Published

Security assurance comes by request. The FAQ states SOC 2 compliance and directs buyers to compliance@chartahealth.com for reports, without giving the report type, period or auditor.

There is no trust center to browse, so the scope of the SOC 2 work, and whether it reaches the model layer that reads client charts, is visible only once the report arrives.

CC on FDA and Regulatory StatusNo device claim is made and the product is scoped accordingly. Most administrative and operational products sit here and are not penalized for it, because this axis grades the appropriateness of the positioning rather than possession of a clearance.
Vendor Published

Coding and chart review are administrative functions, and no device claim is made.

The exposure is program integrity. Charta verifies that E/M codes are billed 'at the highest defensible level' and can code without review, and when a government payer is billed, liability for an unsupported code falls on the billing provider under the False Claims Act. On the payer side it promises to make a risk adjustment program 'audit proof', a marketing line with no compliance position behind it.

DD on AI Governance and Bias DisclosureNothing published on how model behavior is governed or tested. Multilingual operation with no subgroup performance sits here when the vendor markets recognition quality as a strength, because a caller the system failed to understand leaves no complaint and no record.
Vendor Published

How Charta monitors or tests model behavior is not described, and no governance framework or evaluation is offered.

The direction of error matters for this product. Charta measures its value as revenue uplift, 11 percent in RVUs per encounter, and verifies that E/M codes are billed at the highest defensible level, so a model tuned for capture can drift toward higher coding without any single chart showing it.

CC on AI Liability and RecourseMechanisms exist that let someone challenge an output, such as audit trails, source traceability or review before commit, with nothing standing behind the output and no route for the harmed party.
Vendor Published

Each suggestion cites the documentation behind it, so an unsupported or invented code can be checked at review rather than found in an audit months later, and problem charts can go to a person.

No warranty, indemnity or correction commitment stands behind the output. Where Charta corrects coding in the EHR without review, the citation trail is the only check.

Integration and Deployment
CC on EHR and Interoperability DepthIntegration is claimed through standards or a middleware layer with no system named and nothing to verify.
Vendor Published

Integration runs both ways in Charta's account: the platform reads all documentation after a note closes and can correct coding directly in the EHR, and the FAQ says it has integrated with dozens of commercial EHRs and homegrown EMRs.

No EHR, standard or marketplace listing is named, so which systems support correction in place, rather than review alone, cannot be confirmed.

CC on Deployment Model and Data ResidencyA single hosted option with location implied rather than committed.
Vendor Published

Charta runs as a hosted platform that reads EHR documentation after each note closes.

Host, region and tenancy are not stated. The GDPR compliance statement implies some processing falls under EU rules without saying where, and the language model layer adds a processing location the client cannot see.

Commercial
CC on Commercial TransparencyNo price is published and the posture is discoverable: a buyer can establish how the product is sold and what drives the cost before contacting the vendor. Most of the index sits here.
Vendor Published

Pricing goes through a demo request. Charta sells to provider organizations, health systems, MSOs and payers, builds each integration with dedicated engineering support, and measures its value as revenue uplift in RVUs per encounter.

Whether the fee is per encounter, per provider or a share of uplift is not stated, and a fee that scales with uplift would reward higher coding.

BB on Setting and Specialty CoverageCoverage is named with validation behind part of it.
Vendor Published

Fee for service providers across specialties make up the provider market: primary care, FQHCs, urgent care, behavioral health, provider groups, MSOs and health systems, with payers served for risk adjustment and HEDIS. Named customers cover home health (KidsCare Home Health) and provider groups (Third Eye Health, Family Care Center), and an FQHC case study covers community health.

Inpatient facility coding is not the target, although Charta says any organization with a reason to audit charts can use it.

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Pricing

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Entry Price Pricing Basis BAA Tier Implementation Source
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Not published. Charta points buyers to a demo and states confidence in a positive return without a rate or structure. HIPAA compliance stated; no business associate agreement is published. Not published. Each implementation is built with dedicated engineering support and an onboarding period of feedback tuning, which suggests a services component. Vendor Published

Pricing structure is not public. Whether Charta bills a flat subscription, per chart or a share of recovered revenue changes the incentives of a product whose value is measured in additional coded revenue.