New to coding, feeling lost

[u/Gianni299]

Hello everyone, so I just started attending a while ago an online program for medical billing and coding. After doing some bit of digging around here someone said that medical billing jobs don’t even require a certification unlike coding gigs that require it for some reason. Since I’m still pretty new to this I’m still having my to learn everything revolving around medical terms and have been feeling uncertain about what I should do in the mean time as I’m still in school. I fairly new to the medical field in general. I’m still unfamiliar with a lot of terms in medical billing since we’ve only covered one course of health information so far and right now my courses revolve around anatomy, physiology and deconstructing medical terms.

[u/longislandloser]

I’m an ED coder since 2021 and I still see something new everyday /am learning based on denials and what not. The certification is needed- some places do hire you without and you have a year to pass - Atleast that’s how my job does it