Most medical coding professionals obtain work in places such as hospitals, physician's offices and group practices, surgery centers, nursing homes and long term care facilities. ... I don't think anyone fresh to the medical billing and /or coding profession can even begin to imagine the complexity of information needed to learn in order to do this job correctly. ... The coding profession requires much more than simply remembering numbers. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

A 1991 law called The Patient Self Determination Act (PSDA) requires hospitals and nursing homes to tell patients about their right to refuse medical treatment. ... The result is that the profession tends to err on the conservative side. ... Change is in the air, brought on by forces that have put pressure on members of the medical profession to ease their control on patient care and treatment decision making. ... Dramatic changes in the medical profession itself have led to a breakdown in patient trust. ... No group is more subject to the risks of litigation than the medical profess...

• Word Count: 2107
• Approx Pages: 8
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate