Medical Billing vs. Medical Coding

Medical Billing vs. Medical Coding — What’s The Difference?
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Alicia: Q: Billing vs. Coding “What’s the difference between Billing versus Coding?”

A: Well, if I can answer that question. Let’s see here. OK there we go. Do you like that little graphic I found of the gears of the brain? Isn’t that great?

Medical Billing is really all about reimbursement, first of all. Think of the Billing as reimbursement. It’s much more than that but when you think of billing, that’s the first thing that’s probably going to come to your mind.

It’s about obtaining the reimbursement for the work that was done to the patient by the provider and that usually is the E/M — the Evaluation and the Management of the patient. Whether they did any procedures on the patient or not, he is evaluating and he is managing the care of the patient, maybe it’s the disease process of the patient.

Now, Medical Coding is really just the language in which the transaction is carried out. Coding is literally a code that the actions are translated into. Let’s explain that a little bit differently. Your physician sees a patient. Let’s say our patient’s name is Judy. So, Judy comes in and the doctor does an Evaluation and Management of Judy. By what he does to her with the Evaluation and Management, CPT codes and ICD codes are assigned by the coder.

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