Advances in technology have changed the way medicine is practiced, documented and reported. For coders, that means mental work has overtaken manual work. “Coders aren’t data entering; they are working exceptions from scrubbers,” explained Lynn Anderanin, CPC, CPMA, CPPM, CPC-I, COSC. Anderanin oversees coding education at the Park Ridge, Ill.-based Healthcare Information Services.
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