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.

The coding of medical diagnosis and treatment has always been a challenging issue. Translating a patient’s complex symptoms, and a clinician’s efforts to address them, into a clear and unambiguous ...

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 ...

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 ...

This 100% online medical billing and coding course will prepare you for success as you learn about legal, ethical, and regulatory concepts central to this field, including HIPAA compliance, official ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...