MEDICAL CODING
Medical Coding is the conversion of healthcare procedures, signs and symptoms, diagnosis or any other abnormal findings on a patient by a healthcare professional or a doctor into universally accepted alphanumeric codes. These codes make up the whole payment purpose.
Medical Coders uses a set of assigned codes for coding purposes, which includes ICD, CPT and HCPCS. CPT codes are procedural codes while HCPCS codes are codes for equipment used. ICD Codes or International Classification of Diseases are set of code denoting diagnosis of a patient. For instance, ICD 10 CM code B58.9 denotes toxoplasmosis.
Toxoplasmosis is an infection with a parasite called Toxoplasma gondii. Toxoplasmosis can cause severe lung or brain disease for a person with weakened immunity.
Symptoms may include:
- Fever
- Swollen lymph nodes
- Headache
- Muscle aches
- Skin rash
The toxoplasma parasites may infect tissues of the inner eye. Eye pain, poor vision ,floaters which are specks that seem to swim in your vision are some of the symptoms of the eye disease.
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