What is Medical Insurance Billing and Coding?
The way I understand medical billing is a way to translate the health issues that a person has in a universal language, which the others can easily understand. The medical terms are hard to understand and that’s why they write them in codes. Just by taking a look at these codes, the others can understand the overall situation of a patient.
I moved to the US a few months ago and that’s how my primitive mind understands that. In Europe, we don’t have such codes, so it’s totally new to me.
A more complex description of these codes on http://www.medicarepaymentandreimbursement.com/2010/10/office-visit-cpt-code-does-require.html.
Medical insurance billing and coding is the portion of the health care industry that handles the administrative aspects of the field. The majority of people who work in this industry do not interact with patients; rather, they deal with other people responsible for the vast paperwork and information related to the processing and request for payments. Both billing and coding are considered distinct fields within the medical insurance industry.
