nialak29
New
I earned my medical billing and coding certificate in December 2019. A few months after, I took my CPC exam. In february 2021, I finished practicode of 600 medical cases and removed my apprenticeship. With this in mind, I worked as a medical biller at a kidney specialists office for 9 months. During my time there, I was not allowed to use my coding skills at all and there was no advancement involved for the future. The doctors did the coding. I stay in contact with my coding teacher for a long time. I received a better job opportunity and left the billing job. I just started working at Pathway Health Partners. My position title is clinical documentation improvement specialist HCC risk coder. The company is an ACO and is contracted by medicare. It may not be directly what I want to do but it lets me atleast deal with coding. This type of coding is new and popular lately from what I know. I am familiar with the fee for fee service coding where you code for physicians or hospitals directly after services. Risk adjustment seems a bit different as it deals with assigning risk scores. My question is can this still help me to reach a medical coding job that is not risk adjustment. I don’t have hands on work experience in coding at all. I will have risk adjustment as I work here but for outpatient or inpatient coding. My goal is to be a medical coder. I am just struggling to reach there little by little. I need some advice.