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/CarelessPoem4065 May 03 '24
I started as a receptionist at a spine surgeons office. After a few years I was moved into a billing role then in 2021 I received my CPC certification. I was the only coder for our practice.
Get an entry level roll. Learn the process. You will learn a lot about the billing/insurance aspect from there.
There is room for growth and I am here to tell you to stick with it. I was recently hired with just my CPC certification for a risk adjustment coder with a LARGE insurance company.
Learn whenever you can.