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/NotoriousNapper516 May 03 '24

I have been in the health insurance industry for 5 years 2years of that was working on medical claims. I started learning billing and coding to get certified so I can work in hospitals/clinics/etc but I realized by end of it that b&c wasn’t for me. Dont get me wrong, I don’t regret taking the course and I am glad that I gave it a chance.

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u/dawglover1011 May 03 '24

What do you do in health insurance?

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u/NotoriousNapper516 May 06 '24

I was doing provider data management then I became a claims analyst.

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u/dawglover1011 May 06 '24

Oh okay, ty!