What exactly do medical coders do?

Question

Is it a hard job? How's the pay?

Answer 1

its not a hard job once you learn the codes.

when people go to the hospital a doctor writes down everything that's happened. say if someone gets attacked by a shark and was bitten on the leg they would put

leg lacerations to the thigh and calf

animal attack

and there's numerical codes to go with that. simple enough =]

it pays pretty well too

Answer 2

they 'code' what has been done for the patient (i.e. what surgery and performance etc.) for insurance companies, learn more at PureMedicalJobs.com billing page