Medical Coding in Alappuzha

MEDICAL CODING                                  Medical Coding is the transformation of a patients' healthcare process, diagnosis, procedures, treatment received, prescriptions, equipment used and more into alphanumeric codes. These codes are generated by extracting information of a patient from their healthcare providers notes, lab results or any other tests. These codes are later billed to insurance companies to claim it for their payment purposes. Medical Coders, generate these codes with the help of previously assigned codes like, ICD, CPT and HCPCS.                                ICD Codes or International Classification of Diseases are set of diagnostic codes which denotes, the disease of the patient, signa nd symptoms, causes of illness or death and any other abnormal findings on a patient. For Instance ICD Code, H...

MEDICAL CODING                                         Medical Coding is the process of converting a patients' healthcare professionals diagnosis on a patient, Procedures done, equipment used, prescriptions and every other details into universally accepted alphanumeric codes. These codes are used to claim insurance for payment purposes. Hence these codes must be accurate.                                                                                        Medical Coders use a set of previously designed codes to generate codes based on the details of the patient. These codes includes, ICD, CPT and HCPCS codes. ICD Codes or International Classification of Diseases are se...

MEDICAL CODING                           Medical Coding is the conversion of a patients' diagnosis, prescriptions, healthcare procedures, equipment used, treatment used and more into alphanumeric codes. These codes must be accurate as they make up the whole payment claim. The medical coders uses a previously assigned set of codes for coding purpose, which includes, ICD,CPT and HCPCS codes.                                   International Classification of Diseases or ICD codes are set of diagnostic codes , while CPT or Current Procedural Terminology are set of Procedural codes denoting the procedures done by a healthcare professional or a physician. HCPCS codes or Healthcare Common Procedural Coding System are set of codes denoting the equipment used during healthcare process. These codes are important as they make up the whole payment ...

MEDICAL CODING                         Medical Coding is the process of taking a patient's healthcare information like medical procedures, diagnosis, medical equipment used, medical services received and more into universally accepted alphanumeric codes. A Medical coder is responsible for transforming these information into codes. Medical Billers are responsible for generating the bill for payment of patient.                                  Medical Coding is one of the most important factor of healthcare industry. They are responsible for translating patient information into universal language are understood by insurance companies. This information is used to generate bills and track payments.                                     Medical Coders uses ...

MEDICAL BILLING                         Medical Coding and Billing are relative but distant process. Medical Coding is the conversion of a patients' healthcare procedure, diagnosis, treatment received and equipment used into alphanumeric codes. These codes are utilized by Medical Billers to claim insurance. Billers take these generated codes and send to insurance companies to claim insurance for payment purpose.                     A Medical Biller is responsible for handling and transferring patient information, submission of claims to insurance companies and they also look after if the payments for medical services are received in timely manner. Skills required for a Medical Billers include : Ability to understand billing software Ability to multi task Ability to manage time Written and communication skills Problem solving and organizational abilities.    ...

MEDICAL CODING                                  Medical Coding is the process of transformation of a healthcare diagnosis, procedures, medical services and equipment used during a healthcare process into alphanumeric codes. These codes are important as they make up for the reimbursement purposes. There are certain skills a Medical Coder must possess, which includes : Excellent communication Analytical skills Interpersonal communication Computer literacy Time management skills Good writing or typing skills. Attention for detail Able to keep privacy for patient details. And more.                            Transorze Solutions provides highest quality training in HBPO (medical coding, medical scribing, medical transcription),Digital Marketing and OET Courses. Transorze aims to enhance job readiness and employability in youth by provi...

MEDICAL CODING                             A Medical Coder is someone who translates details from a patient's medical documents which includes, physician's notes, lab reports, procedures and diagnosis into universally accepted alphanumeric codes. Medical Billers uses these codes to claim insurance for reimbursement purposes.                             Medical Coder uses a set of previously assigned codes to generate codes. These included ICD, CPT and HCPCS. ICD Codes are set of diagnostic codes, CPT codes are procedural codes and HCPCS codes are codes denoting for equipment used.                             ICD codes or International Classification of Codes are set diagnostic codes managed and published by World Health Organisation (WHO).These codes includes diagnosis, prescri...

MEDICAL CODING                     Medical Coding is the transformation of a patients' healthcare procedures, diagnosis, necessary medical equipment and medical services information from the physician notes. A medical coder uses these transforms this information into universal medical alphanumeric codes. There are three types of codes :  ICD or International Classification of Diseases : These are set of diagnostic codes published and managed by World Health Organisation (WHO). These codes contains signs and symptoms, causes of injury, illness and death. CPT or Current Procedural Terminology : These codes are set of procedural codes. The procedures done in a physicians office are documented and converted into codes for reimbursement purposes. HCPCS code or Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System : These codes contains the equipment used during a healthcare process. This codes includes medical equipment, prosthetics, ambulance rid...

MEDICAL CODING                             Medical Coding is the process of assigning alphanumeric codes to a patients' diagnosis and treatments. Medical Coding is done as to ensure whether medical billing and insurance process claims are done correctly. It is important as these codes are used for research purpose. There are three types of medical alphanumeric codes : International Classification of Diseases (ICD) Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) Healthcare Common Procedure Coding (HCPCS)                            International Classification of Diseases are set of codes are diagnostic codes published and managed by World Health Organisation ( WHO ), These codes contains, signs and symptoms, diseases or cause of death. For instance ICD code, I63.9 denotes Cerebral Infraction.                  ...

MEDICAL CODING                                 Medical Coding is the transformation of a patients' diagnosis and treatment received, prescriptions, equipment received and more into alphanumeric codes. These codes are later billed to insurance companies to claim insurance for their payment purposes. These codes are important hence they make up the whole payment claim. These codes are important as they make up the whole claim.                                Medical Coders uses a set of assigned codes for generating codes, for instance ICD codes, CPT and HCPCS codes. ICD codes or International Classification of Diseases are set of codes published and maintained by WHO, which contains diagnosis, treatment received or any other abnormal findings on a patient. For instance ICD 10 CM code G00.9 denotes Bacterial Meningitis. ...

MEDICAL CODING                           Medical Coding is the process of assigning codes to a patients' diagnosis, prescriptions, treatment received and more into alphanumeric codes. These codes are of importance in healthcare. These codes make up the whole payment process. The codes generated are send to insurance companies to claim insurance for the payment purposes. Medical Billers does this billing processes.                              Medical Coders uses a set of previously assigned codes for coding purposes for instance, ICD, CPT and HCPCS codes. These codes are set to produce the codes for reimbursement purpose. ICD codes are set of diagnostic codes while, CPT codes are procedure codes and HCPCS codes are equipment codes.                               Medical Coder...

MEDICAL CODING                           Medical Coding is the transformation of a patients' healthcare process, diagnosis, procedures, treatment received, prescriptions, equipment used and more into alphanumeric codes. These codes are generated by extracting information of a patient from their healthcare providers notes, lab results or any other tests. These codes are later billed to insurance companies to claim it for their payment purposes. Medical Coders, generate these codes with the help of previously assigned codes like, ICD, CPT and HCPCS.                           International Classification of Diseases or ICD codes are set of codes published and managed by World Health Organisation (WHO). These are diagnostic codes, which contains signs and symptoms of a patient, or any other abnormal findings in a patient. For instance, ICD Code, C95.90 de...