It's often said that "no job is finished until the paperwork is done." That's certainly the case in medical offices, where every test and procedure must be translated into a specialized code before it ...

Medical coders might not decipher top-secret government codes, but their skills are critical to insurance companies, hospitals and health-care organizations. When a patient receives care from a ...

After two years of following a doctor around the office as a medical assistant, Raina Diaz was ready for a change. "I wanted to be part of the back end of the medical field," says Diaz, 47, of St.

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Dealing with emergencies is nothing new to the heath care industry, and while not life threatening, a lack of skilled medical coders threatens to disrupt one of the critical elements a hospital needs ...

Stuart Robinson began working at North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust in a temporary role after university, but has since made the move into a career within clinical coding. We sat down with ...

A transformation is underway in medical coding as automation permeates medical billing. It raises many questions, such as what kind of skill sets will be needed for this new generation of coding? Will ...

Clinical coding is a process by which descriptions of diseases, injuries or procedures are assigned a numeric or alphanumeric designation. Coding provides a mechanism for standardizing the recording ...

Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) is increasingly moving beyond clinical decision support and into the administrative functions ...

Teaching medical coders advanced medical coding skills was the focus of workshops run by the World Bank and American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) in Indonesia this year. Codes are ...