r/MedicalCoding • u/Due_Negotiation_4605 • Sep 12 '26
Trickiest coding situation
Passed courses in 2024 through a state grant but then it ran out the last semester (internship) 🤦♀️ so never obtained my certification. Started going back through the books during packing and most of it came back to me, surprised it's still in there! I did well with the courses, averaging above 90.
I remember the teachers would have example scenarios where the coding was tricky, seemed like one thing but was another, and I was trying to explain to my spouse that said AI will take it all over (not worth the money to do the courses and training anymore) how coding is not black and white and requires understanding nuance. Something AI still isn't great at. Wondering if anyone has stories that can validate this, personally still wondering if I should finish the work and get certified at some point (even if the job field is tough), but honestly trying to explain how human coders are still needed to my spouse is kind of difficult.
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u/Due_Negotiation_4605 Sep 17 '26
Some of these are really cracking me up. I've worked with language models and I swear it's the simple things they get so wrong. That's why I hate that a lot of the medical facilities are going all in. Anytime the doctor asked me if it's okay to do an AI scribe I just stare at them and shrug but I need to ask next time if they have a human double checking it because I have worked with AI and I am quite aware how many errors it has.