A coding professional enters the appropriate code assignments for diagnoses and procedures, the patient's age, and the dates of admission and discharge in order to calculate and assign a reimbursement for hospital inpatients under this process:
A. abstracting.
B. encoding.
C. grouping.
D. coding.
Answer: C
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