Types of codes that you will come across in medical coding.
In this article we are going to discuss three types of codes that every medical coder will come across in his/her career.
A coder is a professional who will collect medical reports from a physician and turn that information (the condition of the patient, the diagnosis of the doctor, the prescription and any other procedure that the physician performed on the patient) into a set of codes.
There are three sets of code you’ll use on a daily basis as a medical coder.
- ICD
- CPT
- HCPCS
ICD 10 CM :
ICD-10-CM, contains over 68,000 codes.
CPT : Current Procedure Terminology
CPT codes are five-digit numeric codes that are divided into three categories. The first category is used most often, and it is divided into six ranges. These ranges correspond to six major medical fields: Evaluation and Management, Anesthesia, Surgery, Radiology, Pathology and Laboratory, and Medicine.
HCPCS : Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System
Credit: AAPC
Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS), commonly pronounced as “hick picks,” are a set of codes based on CPT codes.