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What is a Medical Coder?
A Medical Coder is also termed as a Diagnostic Coder, Clinical Coder and Medical Records Technician. A Medical Coder is a health care professional whose main duties will be to analyse clinical statements and assign standard codes using a classification system.
Medical coding is the transformation of narrative descriptions of diseases, injuries, and healthcare procedures into numeric or alphanumeric designations (that's, code numbers). The code numbers are detailed to be able to accurately describe the diagnoses (that's, what is wrong with the patient) and also the procedures performed to check or correct these diagnoses. Because medicine is not always theory, codes were designed to identify all causes of seeking healthcare.