Reimbursement drives adoption of AI software for stroke

After analyzing its Vizient Clinical Data Base, the company found that 130 hospital members were using the designated code for AI software in LVO detection — ICD-10-PCS procedure code 4A03X5D — in the second quarter of 2021, up from 63 hospitals in the fourth quarter of 2020. And the number of procedures also more than doubled.

“AI-assisted stroke triage and workflow platforms appear to be in the early stages of innovation adoption,” the authors wrote in volume 4 of Vizient’s Medical Device Tech Watch publication. “Currently, hundreds of U.S. hospitals use the technology and thousands…