Executive buy-in for AI-powered coding is high - but on the front lines, the story is more complicated. Medicaid cuts and shrinking budgets are pushing organizations to adopt AI faster, even as coders escalate concerns to compliance and HR, unions claim seats on AI governance committees, and quality leaders navigate the gap between what leadership has committed to and what coding staff are ready to trust.

In this candid panel, coding quality leaders from Mayo Clinic, Allegheny Health Network, OHSU, and Cedars-Sinai, each at a different stage of AI-driven coding adoption, share what change management actually looks like as coding teams and technology evolve together, including the AI vendor's role in earning coder buy-in through transparency, certified-coder involvement, and genuine partnership with the coding team. The panel will dig into a challenge every organization is facing, rising payer denials, to show how configurable AI and coder feedback loops turn skeptics into stakeholders. Attendees will leave with practical strategies for engaging coders as their roles evolve and a higher bar to hold every AI coding vendor to.

This session is sponsored by CodaMetrix.

This session offers 1 AHIMA CEU.