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In the majority of health care professions, employees interact with patients in a hectic environment while working long hours. However, not all careers in the industry are patient-centered. In fact, medical coders are just as important as any other piece in the medical industry puzzle, but they perform their duties in a back-office capacity, away from the hectic bustle and patients, and they generally have a designated daytime shift.Medical coding certification has become a highly-sought credential as the availability of careers continues to grow.
Coding, sometimes referred to as classification, requires a person assigning codes to treatments and procedures given to a patient in order to receive payment from an insurance company. The coding system is applied to a nurse’s or doctor’s notes, tests, and results from a laboratory so that the treatments, diagnoses and procedures can be analyzed quickly at a later date. There are two types of medical coding: statistical classification and nomenclature, where nomenclature is used to identify and list clinical concepts and statistical classification classifies the concepts into groups. That way, health care services may be properly coded and billed when performed.
Becoming a certified medical coder without stressing
In order to earn a medical coding certification, a person must first choose the type of coder credentials he or she wants to earn. These include Certified Professional Coder (CPC); Certified Professional Coder – Outpatient Hospital (CPC-H); Certified Professional Coder – Payer (CPC-P); Certified Interventional Radiology Cardiovascular Coder (CIRCC); and Specialty Coding Credentials. Once it is decided, the person must study hard and pass an exam to receiver certification, either the Certified Coding Specialist-Physician Based (CCS-P) Exam or the Certified Professional Coder (CPC) Exam. Just like the MCATs, LSATs or any other post-graduate exam, CPC and CCS-P exams can leave a person feeling overwhelmed and under-educated.
