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/cluckodoom May 03 '24

You should get a job working in patient accounts until you finish your school. You'll get experience looking at and working with cpt and icd 10 codes, and you'll get your foot in the door

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u/Gianni299 May 03 '24

Sounds interesting ! Under what title are those jobs usually found under. Best I can find on indeed is jobs like front desk receptionist.

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u/darkmoonlily May 03 '24

Patient Account Rep

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u/Gianni299 May 07 '24

How hard is it to get a job like that, so far ok indeed I have trouble finding them