Medical coding is the assignment of letters and numbers to specific medical and diagnostic phrases; each combination representing an individual diagnosis (E11.36 - Diabetes with cataract) or procedure (0DJD8ZZ - Colonoscopy).
These codes enable the health care industry to collect, process, and send information more effectively.
This organized system of codes is a language used by health care providers and insurance companies to tell the story of why a patient was seen and what treatments the patient received.
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