United StatesHealthcare and life sciences2024 – ongoingAcentra Health
MedScribe appeal letter drafting
Acentra Health's MedScribe halves Medicare appeal letter time and saves 11,000 nursing hours
Problem
Nurses wrote each letter answering a Medicare appeal decision from scratch.
Approach
Acentra built MedScribe, a web app on Azure OpenAI Service, in about six months. Nurses now review drafts, and the tool adjusts reading level and tone for the recipient.
Results
11,000 hoursNursing hours saved
~$800,000Cost saved
6 to 3 minutesAverage time per letter, before and after
Takeaway
Time per letter fell from about six minutes to three. The company reports 65,000 letters in the first six months and nearly $800,000 saved.
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Sources
Source summaries
[1]Microsoft3 Dec 2024
Microsoft tells how Acentra built MedScribe to draft Medicare appeal letters. It reports 11,000 nursing hours saved, nearly $800,000 in savings and 65,000 letters in the first six months.
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Added 25 Oct 2026 · Updated 25 Oct 2026