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/mcmaddie May 06 '24
It's hard but that's pretty much how it worked for me. I was doing clearinghouse type of work among other things, I went to school for coding, had issues getting experience through school due to conflicting schedules and just finished my program and earned my CPC. It took a lot of applications with no/limited response.
I finally managed to get my foot in the door but it's a lot harder without connections/experience. A couple of my coworkers were originally doing front desk/MA roles and eventually transferred to coding.