Helpful hints to make your revenue cycle process as smooth as possible. Our last blog in the medical billing and practice management series explored charge capture and coding. Proper charge capture enables you to create an accurate claim that has a better likelihood of reimbursement. The next step to create the claim itself and scrub that claim to make sure it is clean and error free. Coding requires staff to gather information from the medical record and other documentation used in medical billing. Codes are required to generate insurance claims, which go to third-party payers. During claims creation, coding is transformed, manually or electronically, into billing. Accurate coding reduces the number of claims to medical insurers that are denied. Claims scrubbing is a way to audit claims before they are submitted to insurers. Clean claims help ensure medical practices receive timely and accurate payments.