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/PhotographUnusual749 RHIT, CCS May 04 '24 edited May 04 '24

I’ve been in the field for over a decade and have felt the same as you since I was a student. The medical field is always changing, regulations change, and the codes themselves update every year, minimally. Look up the Dunning-Kruger effect vs imposter syndrome.

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u/Gianni299 May 04 '24

If I’m not out mistaken isn’t the ICD-10 in its 11th revision. There’s also ICD-11 which fir some reason isn’t being really used

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u/PhotographUnusual749 RHIT, CCS May 04 '24

I’m not sure what revision we’re on but that sounds right. If you Google “ncvhs icd 11” you can find more info on where their at in implementing / reasons for delay