Medical Insurance Billers & Coders organize and manage health information data by ensuring its quality, accuracy, accessibility, and security in both paper files and electronic systems. They use various classification systems to code and categorize patient information for insurance reimbursement purposes, for databases and registries, and to maintain patients’ medical and treatment histories.

Medical Insurance Billers typically perform the following tasks:

• Scheduling patient appointments.
• Reviewing patients’ records for timeliness, completeness, accuracy, and appropriateness of data.
• Organizing and maintaining data for clinical databases and registries.
• Tracking patient outcomes for quality assessment.
• Using classification software to assign clinical codes for reimbursement and data analysis.
• Electronically recording data for collection, storage, analysis, retrieval, and reporting.
• Maintaining confidentiality of patients’ records.