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The medical coding is the system of transforming healthcare procedure, diagnosis,equipment and medical services into the form of a universal medical codes that are alphanumeric.
The medical coding requires a lot of understanding of (International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification) ICD-10-CM, and The Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) for using appropriate Diagnosis and procedure codes to indicate various conditions.
Main responsibility of a medical coder is to assign appropriate to a certain disease or procedure performed by a doctor as per rules and regulations of ICD-10 and HCPCS.
Medical coders work in several form of organizations like hospitals, clinics,doctors’ offices, healthcare consulting services,educational institutes (for teaching courses related to medical coding), insurance agencies (because they need to process the claims of patients and need coders for better understanding of diseases and procedures), Law firms, government agencies as well as freelance medical coders by working from home.
Freelance medical coders work online from sitting at their homes and providing services to doctors and clinics for appropriate medical coding of their patient's claims that have to be submitted to insurances for getting payments on behalf of patients.
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