Medical Coding Market, By Classification System (International Classification of Diseases (ICD) and Healthcare Common Procedure Code System (HCPCS)), By Component (In-house and Outsourced), By End User (Hospitals, Diagnostic Centres, and Other End Users), and By Geography (North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, South America, and Middle East and Africa) - Size, Share, Outlook, and Opportunity Analysis, 2022 - 2028
Medical coding specialists play an essential role in the healthcare business. It is a process of transforming healthcare diagnosis, medical services, procedures, and devices into the universal medical alphanumeric codes. Medical coding involves extracting billable information from the medical record and clinical documentation, whereas medical billing uses those codes to create insurance claims and bills for the patients. Creating claims is where medical coding and billing intersect to form the backbone of the healthcare revenue cycle. Medical coding and billing are the two most important factors that help form a claim that ensures that patients and insurance providers provide payments for the services rendered by a medical practice.
Market Dynamics:
Increasing demand for coding services and growing demand to streamline hospital procedures are some major factors expected to augment the growth of the global medical coding market over the forecast period. For instance, according to American Academy of Professional Coders (2022 report), there are thousands of services performed by providers and an equal number of injectable drugs or supplies to be tracked, and medical coding classifies these for easy reporting and tracking. The agency also states that there are many descriptions, names, acronyms, and eponyms for each disease, device and procedure in healthcare, and medical coding standardizes the language and presentation of all these rudiments.
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