Medical Coding
Transformation of healthcare diagnoses, procedures, medical services and equipment into universal medical alphanumeric codes.
The diagnosis and procedure codes are taken from medical record documentations, such as transcription of physician’s notes, laboratory and radiologic results.
Medical coding professionals help ensure the codes are applied correctly during the medical billing process, which includes abstracting the information from documentation, assigning the appropriate codes and creating a claim to be paid by insurance carriers.
Coding industry employment is projected to increase by 22% by 2020.A huge number of professional are needs in this field to code patient record.
- Medical coding is the statistical analysis of patients charts for reimbursement.
- There are specific and universally accepted alphanumerical codes are use to code the diagnoses and respective therapeutic procedures.
- Many countries uses their country specific and state specific standards and policies to code the medical records.
- There are two standard Manuals are used to arrive diagnoses and procedures codes respectively.
- The manuals are ICD 10CM stands for International Classification of Disease 10th Revision , Clinical modification, and CPT stands for current procedural coding system.