Medical Coding

Healthcare field offers abundant opportunities beyond being a doctor or nurse. Medical coding is administrative option for a good opportunity on Healthcare field. According to the American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC)®, the definition medical coding is “Medical coding is the transformation of healthcare diagnosis, procedures, medical services and equipment into universal medical alphanumeric codes.”
Medical coding course will impart students with the process of translating important medical information into simple codes for the purpose of documenting medical records and informing accurate medical billing.

Scope of Medical Coding :

The healthcare field is a very sensitive one where both service providers like Doctors, nurses and service receivers like Patients need to utilise facilities like health care diagnosis, medical services, equipment. The numerous records are prepared whether health records of patients or preparation of bills of patients to reimburse from insurance companies in this regards. It is difficult to process these records as such so records are created in universal medical alphanumeric language by medical coders.

Career Prospects

• 1. Hospitals and Medical Institutes