Medical coding is a key step in healthcare revenue cycle management. Medical coders abstract the information from the physician documentation, assign appropriate codes, and create a claim to be paid either by the patient or by the insurers.
In order to accomplish this, the coder checks a variety of sources within the patient’s medical record, (i.e. the transcription of the doctor’s notes, ordered laboratory tests, requested imaging studies and other sources) to verify the work that was done. Then the coder must assign CPT® codes for procedures, ICD-10 codes for diagnosis and HCPCS codes for prosthetics (drugs, cotton, gauze, syringe etc.).
Medical coding is the fastest expanding segment in healthcare revenue cycle with a promising career to look forward to for well-trained coding career aspirants. With the move from ICD-9 to ICD-10, this is an opportune time to begin a career in medical coding. US healthcare is poised to cover more people than ever before and medical coding is expected to see robust growth in the forthcoming years.
Acusis is a leader in healthcare related e-learning courses. AMCT is a self-paced online training course that prepares students to master medical coding.
Acusis offers Comprehensive Training in Medical Coding, covering Medical Terminology, Human anatomy and Physiology, ICD-10 CM, CPT-4 and Specialty training in Radiology, Surgery, Evaluation & Management, Anesthesia, Pathology and Medicine coding required for US healthcare BPO.
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