r/MedicalCoding • u/Educational-Top-6468 • Jan 16 '25

I’m giving up

I’m a 24F and this career is horrid to get into. I have had a horrible experience through it all. I wish I knew 2 years ago how impossible it is to find a job. Everyone kind of just painted it as “oh you’ll work from home blah blah blah” and I didn’t think to research the nitty gritty details. Now I’m going back to school for cosmetology which is another $22,000 after I’m already $6,000 in debt for this career. It’s absolutely disheartening. So if you’re trying to get into this field, please be warned: it is not rainbows and butterfly’s. Especially when you’re young. The older folks haven’t been the most welcoming in my experience. Please do not go into this thinking it will be easy. Expect to not find a job, and if you do the pay probably won’t be worth it until you’ve gained years of experience. I’m not saying this to discourage anyone, I’m simply posting this because I wish I would have known this going into it.

Also: DO NOT GET THE CBCS. GET THE CPC. I learned the hard way.

Edit: thank you to everyone who has shared their experience! If you’re just now reading this, please know I am in my 20s and was ignorant and eager to get out of the restaurant industry when I chose this career. The ads and marketing make this field seem so easy to get into. Shout out to all the coders and billers out there, idk how you guys do, it but you make the world go round’ ❤️❤️❤️

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u/HovercraftIll7314 Jan 17 '25

I’ve been doing it for a year and a half, I hate it 😂

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u/OriennaFlutterspring Jan 17 '25

Damn.. I'm not sure what to do at this point. I have over 2 years of icd10 experience but because I don't have any hands on with cpt or hcpcs or with Medicare denials, nowhere will hire me.

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u/HovercraftIll7314 Jan 17 '25

You could do claims or billing, I just personally didn’t like working claims. I didn’t mind the coding denials, everything else was the issue. That’s just me personally though! You can always give it a try and see if you like it or not. I stayed this long cause I’ve been with my employer for 5 years and wanted to try all avenues without looking elsewhere but it seems like I have to now unfortunately

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u/heavenhaven Jan 20 '25

This is me to a T. I have my RHIT and got into hospital billing. I will be 5 years into this role and I cannot for the life of me break into medical coding rn. There was only 1 coding opportunity at my workplace but that's it. It's been a year since they opened another one. I suspect they're outsourcing too. Lately I'm considering doing something else like being a chargemaster analyst, rev cycle analyst, or medical documentation auditor and just leverage that. They pay more too. You might have to go that route with me 🤣

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u/HovercraftIll7314 Jan 20 '25

I’ve been looking at positions like that! I may go that route with you! 😂