
Medical Coding Specialist As an essential role in the medical coding process, the medical coder is responsible for ensuring that all requests for diagnostics and blood work issued by a doctor contains the use of standard medical coding that is recognized by health insurance providers. Along with appearing on the requests for testing that are authorized by doctors, the same set of codes are used to encode any claims that are generated and submitted to the health insurance provider. The function of the medical coder is to ensure that the correct codes are used so that the correct testing is conducted, and the insurance company can quickly and efficiently review and process received claims.