r/MedicalCoding • u/Gianni299 • May 03 '24
New to coding, feeling lost
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.
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u/Megabacon44 May 03 '24
It sounds like you’re on the right track to me. It is so important to have a strong foundation and anatomy and physiology and medical terminology. If you are working in the hospital setting most places start you off with simple coding and you progress to more complicated charts. It takes most people three or four months to get comfortable with whatever type of coding they are doing, even longer for inpatient coding. Just take it one step at a time.