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The Impact of Technology on Medical Billing and Coding

Medical billing and coding have undergone various changes. At first, the payment transaction methods were not clear. Then from the late eighties to until a decade ago, billers and coders had to write down every single detail manually on papers. The information collected was cipher into the designated codes or electronic codes to be stored in the hospital’s database. You can assume that the process of getting claims was surely not a cup of tea. It was lengthy, and most of the time, human errors were a big problem in creating clean claims. Since technology has been a great invention and is making waves in the medical billing industry like other fields. Now professional outsourcing billing companies relay on encoders to mitigate human errors and to increase the precision of the claims. The process is more streamlined than ever and aligned with the companies’ objectives. But relying simply on encoders can also seriously damage your claim processing. Why Professional Medical Coders a