What is the difference between medical transcription and medical coding?

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What is the difference between medical transcription and medical coding?

Answer 1

Medical Transcription is the keyboarding (into a typewriter or computer) of reports from dictation recorded by a doctor or health professional pertaining to medical information.  History and physicals, admission notes, office visit notes, operations, hospital discharge reports and consultations are just a few of the (work) types of reports that are created by the medical transcriptionist.

Medical coding is applying various codesets to procedures, and these claims are submitted to insurance for payment. Insurance companies pay out based on these codes. It's somewhat of an art.

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Answer 2

medical transcription is transcribing doctor's dictation tapes into reports.

medical coding is used for billing. you assign different codes based on the procedure performed and the diagnosis given.

Answer 3

The simplest definition of Transcription is conversion of voice to electronic text form. Medical Transcription is an IT enabled service that requires specialized skills in utilizing Information technology in converting the voice data of the doctors who are in the US, consisting of patient history and medical advises into electronic documents.

Coding means giving codes according to transcribed document.  Once the coding done, it will go for billing.