What Are Online Medical Billing and Coding Classes Actually Like?

Video Transcript

Host Question:
Are Medical Billing and Coding Degrees and Certificates offered via online education?

Medical Billing and Coding Expert Answer:
At this point, yes, they are the companies that I named in HK, the HTC, AMA, AHIMA. All of those certifications are now online. You don’t have to go the route of a typical classroom. You can definitely take the route of just online learning at your own pace. But you still have to stay on track with the courses so that you meet the requirements.

Medical Billing and Coding Expert Answer:
I’ve done both. I’ve taught both. And hybrid. So if you had asked me this a year ago, I would have had a different answer. I would have said in-person education is better because you have that relationship. And for as a teacher, I could see people’s facial expression and body language, like when they’ve had it with me and they don’t get me or when they do get me. I thought that was going to be richer in person. But I teach a lot of programs online, and I learn that it’s really dependent on the student. If you’re engaged online, if you can do online, if you can be in a program where you’re alive with an instructor, then you’re going to have a rich experience because, number one, you want it. And number two, you have someone who’s open to you and have that rapport as a society will learning the benefits of both. So I think you can get a rich experience depending on who you are and what you need.

Medical Billing and Coding Expert Answer:
Yes, there’s a lot of programs at every degree level that you can do online when picking a program. Or course, I would just suggest to pick whatever fits your schedule best or whatever is best for you. An advantage to doing it online would be if you want to move to a remote position, it kind of gives you a taste of how you’re going to have to structure your day in order to make sure you’re meeting, you know, deadlines and things like that. As far as a disadvantage for either one, I don’t think there’s a disadvantage for either one. I think that’s totally going to depend on your learning style. A lot of people learn better in person where they can see someone and ask questions, where other people, they just do better when they can just read it and go at their own pace. I

Medical Billing and Coding Expert Answer:
really think that you should be in the classroom standing to start out learning how to maneuver the books for the diagnosis and the procedures with the ICD-10 and the CBT books. It’s a new experience is something totally different. There’s different types of sections in the books that you need to learn how to look up. It might be an alphabetic type index or a numeric or an alphanumeric. So it’s really good to be in the classroom setting to learn how to use those books. And then on the flip side, it’s great to do remote school your home. You can do it on your own time kind of thing.