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2. Clinical coder - Wikipedia

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   Clinical coder. A clinical coder —also known as clinical coding officer, diagnostic coder, medical coder, or nosologist —is a health information professional whose main duties are to analyse clinical statements and assign standardized codes using a classification system. The health data produced are an integral part of health information ...

3. Current Procedural Terminology - Wikipedia

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   The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code set is a procedural code set developed by the American Medical Association (AMA). It is maintained by the CPT Editorial Panel. [1] The CPT code set describes medical, surgical, and diagnostic services and is designed to communicate uniform information about medical services and procedures among ...

4. AAPC (healthcare) - Wikipedia

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   The AAPC, previously known by the full title of the American Academy of Professional Coders, [ 4 ] is a professional association for people working in specific areas of administration within healthcare businesses in the United States. [ 5 ] AAPC is one of a number of providers who offer services such as certification and training to medical ...

5. Medical classification - Wikipedia

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   A medical classification is used to transform descriptions of medical diagnoses or procedures into standardized statistical code in a process known as clinical coding. Diagnosis classifications list diagnosis codes, which are used to track diseases and other health conditions, inclusive of chronic diseases such as diabetes mellitus and heart ...

6. Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System - Wikipedia

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   The acronym HCPCS originally stood for HCFA Common Procedure Coding System, a medical billing process used by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Prior to 2001, CMS was known as the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA). HCPCS was established in 1978 to provide a standardized coding system for describing the specific ...

7. ICD-10 - Wikipedia

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   ICD-10 is the 10th revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), a medical classification list by the World Health Organization (WHO). It contains codes for diseases, signs and symptoms, abnormal findings, complaints, social circumstances, and external causes of injury or diseases. [ 1 ] Work on ICD-10 began in 1983, [ 2 ...

8. Coding - Wikipedia

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   Coding (social sciences), an analytical process in which data are categorized for analysis. Coding strand of DNA in molecular biology. Legal coding, the process of creating summary or keyword data from a document in the legal profession. Medical coding, representation of medical diagnoses and procedures in standard code numbers.

9. Quest for the Code - Wikipedia

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   Release. May 28, 2002 [ 1 ] Genre (s) Educational. Starbright Asthma CD-ROM Game: Quest for the Code is an interactive asthma adventure game developed by Starbright. The game is available in both English and Spanish and free to both children with asthma and their carers. [ 3 ] The game was designed for educational purposes. [ 4 ] Originally ...