A medical coder in a cardiologist's office is preparing a report about clinical services provided to a patient. The report will be sent to the patient's insurance company. The services included an EKG to record the heart beat and an echocardiogram to take pictures of the heart.For every service, the coder will record a(n)

The coder records a procedure code for each service performed. An EKG and an echocardiogram are medical procedures, and procedure codes identify services so they can be reported and billed to the insurance company. A WHO code and an ICD-O-3 code are not the general codes used to report these procedures.

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