Physicians provide services to patients and want reimbursement for what they do. The medical reimbursement process includes descriptions of procedures and services the physician provides. As you can imagine, these would be terribly long and confusing left in narrative form.

They devised a system of code numbers representing each procedure and service a physician is likely to provide. The growing involvement of computers made it apparent that some method had to be devised to describe and distinguish the enormous numbers and kinds medical and surgical procedures, complaints and diagnoses, so that a code number could be assigned to them to facilitate accurate and rapid determination of the nature and value of the service performed.

Katwa is currently training experienced transcriptionists to code the transcripts. The training is conducted by expert coders and is supervised by the medical coders from US.