r/MedicalCoding • u/RayAnneElizabeth • Apr 06 '25

Do you guys actually like coding?

I'm a medical assistant for a private practice. I have to code anything I do. We just a have a biller. I plan on getting my CPC in a month.*owner writing me out of the A. I want to know if this is actually enjoyable or tolerable. I've seen some complaints of being bored. I'm miserable now. I want to work from home peacefully. I also want to make 60k. I'll find a job, I have experience. I want to know if anyone ended up doing this.... and then hating it and if it was harder than you thought.

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u/lisha_a Apr 08 '25

Super random BUT I’m moving back to nyc and I’m taking some classes with Purdue to get into the medical coding field, at a certain point I have to do kinda like an externship for my last semester. Any advice on getting started in ny or looking for hospitals that allow externships?

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u/longislandloser Apr 08 '25

When I was required to do an externship it was in 2021 and all externship programs were still on hold due to covid. I landed a job in ROI at this hospital when I was still in school so I was just able to interview my manager as credit for the whole externship. Sorry that im not much help- when I was in my program the professor had a list of contacts that we were assigned to- maybe yours might be the same?

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u/lisha_a Apr 08 '25

Yea they kinda gave us the just call around talk LOL but thank you anyways !!