Medical coders often work as a liaison between health providers and billing offices.
Not exact matches
Although there is a difference between
medical billing clerks and
medical coders, the jobs are
often combined due to the similarity of the required expertise.
Doctors are
often paid the bulk of a patient's fees from insurance companies and Medicare, so it's important that the office's
medical biller and
coder is well - organized, properly trained, and certified, if required.
In smaller
medical offices the
medical biller and
coder often are one and the same person, but if you are in a large facility doing strictly coding, then your main focus will be on pinning down specific codes for diagnoses, procedures, and materials provided and then a
medical biller takes over and generates the claims for the services.