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Computer-assisted coding provides a clinic or any facility that offers healthcare a tool to ameliorate potential fraud and abuse issues during the medical coding phase. Computer software provides decision-making aids and tools to assist healthcare providers in completing documentation with accurate results and concluding documentation at an appropriate time. Using computer-assisted coding software offers a healthcare facility benefits in improving coding productivity, identifying documentation deficiencies, and improving the accuracy of code selection. The software eliminates the use and need for multiple systems to use a single software. By eliminating more software, billing and coding become simpler and codes are easier to locate for documentation. By making codes easier to access and locate, missing codes for the services provided are eliminated and the possibility of using incorrect codes is reduced. If a healthcare facility obtains the use of the computerized coding system, it will reduce the need for the clinic to have to hire more staff to carry out a clinic's workloads. Some say it establishes it