How will Knowing medical terminology help Medical billing and coding?
All medical billing is done using specific medical terms for diagnoses, procedures, etc. Every illness, disease, surgical procedure, injury, etc. has a medical term, and each of them correlates with a specific a diagnosis code number, and these numbers are used in billing. The diagnosis codes can be found in a book called an ICD-9, which stands for International Classification of Diseases, 9th Edition.
