It involves research and data analysis for reimbursement, medical records and identifies documentation deficiencies.
Medical coding jobs require candidates to keep an account for the coding and abstracting of patient encounters, including diagnostic and procedural information, significant reportable elements, and complications. Loads of data (diagnosis, prognosis, surgery, procedures, medication, patient history) is all coded and easily accessible for the insurance officers.
Medical Coding is now famous because of the benefits it provides to health insurance companies. For example, a patient with jaundice in one hospital will be translated with the same code as in a hospital 100 km away. The reason why medical coding was introduced was to provide a uniformity of data throughout medical institutes. Medical Coding can be defined as the process of translating worded reports of patients in a hospital or a medical institute into alphanumerical codes accepted universally.