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Medical Billing Code

In medical billing, it is most likely that you will be dealing with medical billing codes. Just how important are they? Well, let's start with...very. They are fundamental tools to medical billing. Without medical billing codes, there would not be any point to the whole profession. Medical billing is often described as the doctor's key to getting paid for services rendered. They are also defined as practice management. But what few people know is medical billing codes are the key to medical billing. The whole process depends on it. Let's start with defining medical billing as a process. We all know that the process starts with the patient's visit where the notes on what kind of treatment procedures were made and what diagnoses the doctor came up with are made on the patient's medical record. These notes are then collected and matched up with a set of medical billing codes which then become the basis for creating the billing record. Afterwards, the billing rec