After two years of following a doctor around the office as a medical assistant, Raina Diaz was ready for a change. “I wanted to be part of the back end of the medical field,” says Diaz, 47, of St.

Market opportunities in the U.S. medical coding market include rising demand for revenue cycle management due to ...

Medical billing and medical coding are crucial aspects of the medical revenue landscape. Both jobs ensure health care providers get paid for their services. Medical coders read the providers’ ...

Quality medical coders can provide an invaluable service to physician practices, hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers by decreasing denials, speeding up the reimbursement process and ensuring ...

Dealing with emergencies is nothing new to the heath care industry, and while not life threatening, a lack of skilled medical coders threatens to disrupt one of the critical elements a hospital needs ...

In 2026, medical coding saw two defining changes: the addition of 288 CPT/HCPCS codes that formalize billing for emerging AI and digital health services, and an April ICD-10-CM update that overhauled ...

The 2026 ICD-10-CM/PCS updates are now live, introducing revised guidance, new condition-specific rules, and clearer definitions that will change how medical coders work daily. From HIV reporting ...

The healthcare industry in Texas is experiencing a significant demand for skilled professionals, especially in roles such as medical billers and coders. According to recent trends reported by Zippia 1 ...

Some jobs have weathered the pandemic far better than others. Medical coders and billers were booming even before the coronavirus hit, and demand for those skills has only accelerated. The job, which ...

Here are six factors that affect the average salary of a medical coder, based on data from AAPC’s 2010 Salary Survey: Coding Still a Good Bet in Bumpy Seas, written by Robison Wells, MBA, senior ...