Procedure Coding (Anthropic Healthcare Plugin)

Anthropic-published skill from the anthropics/healthcare plugin marketplace that abstracts billable services from encounter documentation and assigns CPT and HCPCS Level II codes.

   
Type Claude Skill (shipped inside the healthcare Claude Code plugin)
Supplier Anthropic
Availability GA
Pricing Free / OSS — provided under Anthropic’s terms of service
Capabilities Read/Write — reads clinical notes, emits assigned procedure codes
Verified works · 2026-07-20
Security caution · 2026-07-20 — first-party Anthropic, skill dir confirmed, but repo has no LICENSE

How to install

  • Claude Code — plugin marketplace: 
    /plugin marketplace add anthropics/healthcare
/plugin install healthcare@healthcare

    The procedure-coding skill is bundled inside the consolidated healthcare plugin (the older standalone plugins are now deprecated in favor of healthcare@healthcare). Invoke it as /healthcare:procedure-coding (namespaced by the plugin — not a bare /procedure-coding).

  • Claude.ai / Claude Desktop — the healthcare plugin’s skills load wherever the marketplace plugin is enabled.

What it does

Transforms a single encounter’s clinical notes into the procedure codes needed for insurance claims. It identifies billable services across evaluation-and-management, ancillary services, procedures, labs, imaging, and medicine services, then assigns:

  • CPT codes (five digits, or four digits + F for Category II tracking) — physician services, procedures, and quality measures.
  • HCPCS Level II codes (letter + four digits) — supplies, devices, drugs, and services CPT does not cover.

It extracts visit type/complexity, procedures performed (from operative reports, not plans), lab tests with results, imaging by modality and body part, devices/implants consumed, drugs administered, observation hours, and documented preventive services. It explicitly excludes planned-but-unperformed services, prior results, bundled items, and (by default) Category II quality codes.

Primary use cases: Encounter coding QA, claim preparation, revenue-cycle support.

Notes

Complements icd10-cm (diagnosis coding) — CPT/HCPCS govern procedures where ICD-10-CM governs diagnoses. Pairs with prior-auth and fraud-detection in the same healthcare plugin. Output is decision-support for a professional coder to review, not a substitute for one; confirm payer-specific bundling and modifier rules separately.

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