No, no, no... The opposite is true. The doctor has to state in words what is wrong. You, as the coder, picks the correct code. He may write down the wrong code. This is a recurring theme I've been noticing. I looked up some backup for it the last time. Can't remember where I found it, but it said that the doctor should never use the actual codes as opposed to verbiage. One of the points was he needs to use descriptive terms, such as...worsening, mild, metastatic, etc. and that just putting down the code and its description was not acceptable. That's one reason we aren't to code from superbills. For instance what if the patient had hypertension and CKD III. The doctor writes down 401.9 and 585.3. That's incorrect. It's 403.90 and 585.3. Just one example.