• Health information coding is the transformation of verbal descriptions of diseases, injuries, and procedures into numeric or alphanumeric designations. • Responsible for translating diagnostic and procedural phrases utilized by healthcare providers into coded form procedure codes. • Reviews the content of the medical record for hospital and professional inpatient or outpatient records to identify principal diagnosis, secondary diagnoses and procedures performed. • Carefully details review of documents such as laboratory findings, radiology reports, various scan reports, and more. • Updates and corrects historical file data by completing and submitting claim action reports.