Want to improve patient care? Here’s how medical coding automation helps

Medical coding and patient care likely don’t seem related. In fact, they may appear to be complete opposites. One is focused on billing and revenue, the other on people. A recent Physicians Practice article highlighted this difference, arguing that caring must be prioritized over coding. But what if one wasn’t more important than the other? What if both caring and coding could work together synergistically? When you add automation to medical coding, that’s exactly what happens.