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Under the Inpatient Prospective Payment System, documentation is the payment mechanism. A diagnosis not captured in the coded record is revenue the hospital cannot bill, a quality credit it cannot claim.
Encinitas-based Sandiola introduced Sandpiper on July 14, 2026, a purpose-built clinical documentation integrity AI designed for community hospitals and health systems to keep earned reimbursement from slipping through the coding process.
Where reimbursement leaks The IPPS ties Medicare inpatient payment to the specificity of the clinical record.
Patient acuity, comorbidities, and procedure complexity have to appear in the documentation exactly as coded, or the claim downgrades. Every chart that goes to coding with a gap in it is a gap in the remittance.
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