Volume : 6, Issue : 2, February - 2017
STUDY ON KNOWLEDGE BETWEEN CERTIFIED MEDICAL CODERS AND EXPERIENCED NON-CERTIFIED MEDICAL CODERS IN A PRIVATE MEDICAL CODING COMPANY.
N. Ganesh Kumar, N. Junior Sundresh
Abstract :
<p> <b style="text-align: justify; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Introduction:</span></b><span style="text-align: justify; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> Medical coding is the process of transforming descriptions of medical diagnoses and procedures into universal medical code numbers. The diagnoses and procedures are usually taken from a variety of sources within the health care record, such as the transcription of the physician‘s notes, laboratory results, radiologic results, and other sources.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Aim: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">To compare the knowledge of Medical Terminology, CPT, ICD, HCPCS, ICD Guidelines between Certified Medical Coders and Experienced non-certified Medical Coders.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Methods: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">A prospective comparative study was conducted in a private medical coding company. Participants for this study are categorized into two groups Certified Medical Coders and Experienced but not having any certification in Medical coding.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Results: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">90% of experienced non-certified Medical Coders are having experience of more than 5 years as medical coders. In ICD 10 coding and guidelines, 94%, 89% of non-certified Medical Coders are knowledgeable. 90% of non-certified Medical Coders are knowledgeable. </span><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Conclusion: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Experienced medical coders are having good knowledge than certified medical coders because of learning through experience. Certified medical coders are less experience in medical coding even though they are certified.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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N.Ganesh Kumar, N. Junior Sundresh, STUDY ON KNOWLEDGE BETWEEN CERTIFIED MEDICAL CODERS AND EXPERIENCED NON-CERTIFIED MEDICAL CODERS IN A PRIVATE MEDICAL CODING COMPANY., GLOBAL JOURNAL FOR RESEARCH ANALYSIS : Volume-6, Issue-2, February‾2017