BJC HealthCare, for instance, has a career ladder program that helps the organization build clinical coders. BJC also has a preceptor program for training and assigns new coders a coding buddy as ...

Clinical coding is a process by which descriptions of diseases, injuries or procedures are assigned a numeric or alphanumeric designation. Coding provides a mechanism for standardizing the ...

A clinical coder records information about every patient that visits the hospital, investigating all aspects of their journey ...

On the non-clinical side, the highest-paid nonclinical staff members are medical biller/coders, at $37,000, possibly because of their importance in implementing ICD-10.

Despite the recent news of a delay in the implantation date, ICD-10 remains a priority for healthcare, and those hospital executives who aren't concerned about clinical coder productivity declines ...

It’s the rare hospital that has never experienced delays in receiving reimbursement as a result of clinical documentation coding snafus. But it’s also likely that most hospitals, even if they receive ...