The coding community has three critical resource books: CPT®, HCPCS Level II and ICD-10-CM along with their corresponding codes and guidelines. It is also important to become familiar with different types of insurance plans, regulations, and compliance. While you will be required to interact and communicate with physicians and assistants to a certain degree, much of your work will be independent from everything else that goes on in a health care facility. While many medical billers and coders do work on-site in hospitals and clinics, they're typically far-removed from where patient care is taking place.
Keeping track of patient data over multiple visits.Interacting with physicians and assistants to ensure accuracy.Using codes to bill insurance providers.Determining the correct codes for patient records.From clinics to hospitals to physicians' offices, medical billers and coders use medical codes to document patient diagnoses and treatments. A medical coder will have, generally, the same sort of duties no matter what type of facility they're employed in.
