I have been in school for medical coding and billing and will - I hope - graduste next term. It does look better to be certified - coding is actually the hardest part to learn. Once you learn the procedure it's easier and you always have access to the books. Knowing the terminology really helps a lot to know what you are looking up. Then there's CPT coding - which I like the least. But if you are strictly billing all of it is a lot easier. The coding part takes a while to know all the rules and figuring out how many codes and which ones ins. will reject and being precise. There is very good money in this field!! I will be taking the certification in May here and there are lots of jobs available. I chose this because you can do this from home - although it is getting tougher to be able to do that with all the privacy laws that are coming out.!
Six months is great!! My program can be completed in 9 months - although it has taken longet because fo taking time off.