Every time you see your doctor or she does a procedure on you she bills your insurance company. The billing process is called coding. Of course it's ferociously complex and and the insurance companies do their best to deny whatever they can. Doctors on the other hand do their best to optimise their billings and they hire billers to help them.
Billers are experts in coding. In other words they "finesse" a doctor's billing so she gets paid the most for looking after you. Billers are the foot soldiers in the never ending paper war between the insurance companies and doctors' offices. And I just learned this fun fact... there are 2.2 billers for every MD working. Sigh...and we wonder why we spend two trillion dollars and still leave millions uninsured and under-insured. There's got to be a better way.
