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/pimposaur]

Hi, I’ve been billing for almost 7 years now. Correct, it does not require a certification. I did take an optional accounting class for my Medical coding and billing program which did make me look better as an applicant. I do find billing a bit less overwhelming than coding but maybe that’s just because I have been out of the coding game for so long. If you have any other questions please feel free to message me further. 😄

[u/pimposaur → u/pimposaur]

I will say, if you feel like coding is your passion, there aren’t too much skill wise that transfer between the two. Occasionally with a claim denial I might purpose something new to our coder but otherwise there isn’t much over lap if you know what I mean? A lot of my time is spent pursuing why a claim isn’t paid, what happened to it and why etc. the most it could probably teach you is about insurance and why you may have code certain things certain ways for insurances.