Understanding Medical Coding: The Key to Accurate Healthcare Documentation!

Medical coding is the process of assigning universal medical alphanumeric numbers to medical diagnoses, treatments, services, and equipment. The diagnosis and procedure codes are located in the medical record paperwork, which also includes transcriptions of doctor’s notes, lab and radiologic data, etc.

Personal health records are important since they follow a patient through complaints and treatments in the future and need to be easily comprehensible.

Medical coding is practiced worldwide, with most countries using the International Classification of Diseases (ICD). The World Health Organization maintains the ICD, and each member nation modifies it to suit its requirements.

The American Dental Association (ADA) is the owner and custodian of CDT codes. The dental portion of HCPCS Level II was once represented by the five-character codes, which begin with the letter D.

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