Coding often flies under the radar, lurking below the surface of many people’s awareness, but it’s actually an essential component of the American healthcare system. This is the case for 2 key reasons:
- Coding ensures patients’ diagnoses and other healthcare data are properly recorded
- Healthcare providers are paid for the work they perform
These 2 key reasons are explained in greater detail below.
Patients’ diagnoses need to be duly recorded to ensure they continue to receive optimum treatment. Now that just about everything is accomplished on computers, it’s become a lot easier to record data than it was when everything had to be done on paper. Now a whole host of patient data is duly recorded at every doctor visit, including symptoms, diseases, medications, and conditions each patient is experiencing. This also allows doctors to review this data before patient visit to refresh their memories and make sure they ask the right questions and administer the right tests and medications.
The importance of coding for the purpose of recording patient data can’t be stressed enough.
On the other hand, coding is also essential for healthcare providers to be properly paid for the work they perform. If no one were being paid, the whole healthcare system would basically shut down. Healthcare providers, like every other member of society, need to be able to pay their bills and feed their families. Consequently, they need to be properly paid according to the work they perform. That’s where coding comes in. Since medical coding is basically ubiquitous now, healthcare providers don’t need to submit invoices or do any of the other cumbersome paperwork that used to be necessary. Now healthcare facilities just bill insurance companies directly based on the services performed for each patient that subscribes to a particular healthcare plan. It’s so much simpler this way!
The importance of coding for the purpose of ensuring that healthcare providers are paid can’t be stressed enough, either.
However, many healthcare organizations struggle to keep up with the necessary coding tasks that need to be accomplished every single day. They end up hiring under-qualified medical coders who perform inaccurate coding work that ends up really hurting the healthcare facilities’ bottom lines.
But it doesn’t have to be this way! All healthcare organizations and facilities should just use HCC Coders for all their medical coding needs, including CMS coding. Maximize your reimbursements by hiring HCC Coders to handle all your medical coding tasks, and you’ll see a noticeable difference right away. Our coders are highly qualified medical coding specialists who are dedicated to providing accurate medical coding services to our clients in many parts of the US.
Find out what HCC Coders could do for your healthcare facility today by calling 877-328-2343, emailing info@datafied.com, or sending us a message online here.