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Do you know about Medical Coding

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  MEDICAL CODING                Like translating, medical coding is somewhat similar. Coders take medical reports from physicians, which may include information on the patient's condition, the physician's diagnosis, a prescription, and any procedures the physician or other healthcare provider carried out on the patient, and convert them into a set of codes that form an essential component of the medical claim. Medical coding is the process of converting diagnoses, treatments, services, and equipment used in healthcare into standard medical alphanumeric codes. The diagnoses and procedure codes are derived from the documentation in the medical records, such as the transcription of the doctor's notes, the results of the laboratory and radiologic tests, etc. Professionals in medical coding assist in ensuring that the codes are correctly applied during the medical billing process, which entails extracting the necessary information from the suppo...