Medical Coding Certification
MEDICAL CODING Medical Coding is the conversion of a patient's healthcare procedures, process, equipment used and treatment received into alphanumeric codes. These codes are later billed to insurance companies to claim insurance for payment purposes. Once the codes generated is wrong, the payment will be cancelled. Medical Coders use a set of codes for coding purpose, which includes ICD, CPT and HCPCS. ICD codes or International Classification of Diseases are set of codes published and managed by World Health Organisation (WHO). These codes contains a patient's diagnosis, signs and symptoms or nay other abnormal findings on a patient. For instance ICD code, M13 .0 denotes polyarthritis. ...