How we keep MedicalCodeSearch accurate and trustworthy.
MedicalCodeSearch aims to be accurate and current. This page explains who is behind the site, how our tools and content are produced, and the sources we rely on.
MedicalCodeSearch is produced and maintained by the team at Encore Editorial, a group of editors and healthcare writers. The medical billing and coding content is led by writers with clinical backgrounds. Naomi Foster, a former registered nurse with nearly a decade of bedside experience, is among the primary contributors to the healthcare coverage on this site. Her work, and the work of the editors who review it, focuses on making coverage rules, billing codes, and explanation-of-benefits documents legible for the people who receive them. No single person owns or controls the editorial output. Each piece is written, reviewed, and updated by the team.
The dosage, staffing-ratio, and billing calculators on this site run on arithmetic that any pharmacology or billing textbook would recognize: weight-based mg-per-kg dosing, patient-to-nurse ratio comparisons, and allowed-amount math for coinsurance. Each tool's page spells out the exact formula it applies and the assumptions baked into its defaults. Everything computes locally in your browser; nothing you type into a field leaves your device or gets stored.
Code descriptions and billing explanations here trace back to the official ICD-10-CM index, the AMA's CPT documentation, and CMS billing guidance. Where rules vary by state or change yearly, we say so and link to the authoritative source so you can confirm the latest details.
This site sticks to four calculators (code lookup, nurse staffing ratios, dosage math, billing estimates) and seven explainer guides on how ICD-10, CPT, modifiers and EOBs fit together. We do not cover every specialty coding scenario, and the Code Lookup is a curated sample rather than the full 70,000-plus ICD-10 set or the 10,000-plus CPT codes in circulation. When a reader points out a code, formula, or figure that has changed, we check it against the current official source and update the page rather than leaving it stale.
Nothing on MedicalCodeSearch is sponsored by a billing vendor, coding school, or insurer. A few outbound links pay a referral commission if you buy something, and that revenue keeps the site free, but it has no bearing on which codes we list or how a formula behaves. If a code table, dosage example, or billing figure here looks wrong to you, write in; verified corrections ship in the next update, usually within days.
MedicalCodeSearch is published by Chris Terry as part of the Encore Editorial network of reference sites. Chris does not write or byline the coding and billing content himself; that work belongs to the healthcare writers credited on each article.
Reviewed by Naomi Foster, Healthcare Writer