Explanation of what you see above - Coder Posted: Aug 26th, 2017 - 11:12 am In Reply to: Coding - Dawn
No one entering a new field makes top pay instantly, but given the complaints on other boards in this forum that it's becoming difficult to make even minimum wage, I think moving to coding may pay better even initially. In any event, the median pay nationwide for credentialed coders is now right around 50K. It doesn't take all that long to get there. That isn't exactly bad.
Regarding comment that no one will give you the time of day without experience, that is true in some circumstances. Not all coding courses teach the same thing. If you take the AAPC CPC outpatient physician services course that takes three months, covers none of the basic sciences, and blows through diagnosis coding in only one or two chapters, then employers will expect experience to prove that you can actually do the work. And that's if you can pass the exam, which between 4 and 6 people out of 10 fail, some more than 10 times. That kind of course does not even qualify you to take AHIMA exam like the CCS or CCS-P, because it doesn't contain the required material. And that limits you in terms of what kind of job you can eventually get, basically shutting you out of hospital and remote coding positions.
Take a better course that qualifies you to take and pass both AHIMA and AAPC exams, and your chances of getting a job, and a better one at that, are good.
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