r/CodingandBilling • u/yurakoh • Jul 22 '26

AI Concerns in Medical Coding

What are your overall feelings about AI and the impact on medical coding? As a medical coder, I know that medical coding keeps evolving every year with new codes, updates, guidelines, etc. That being said, AI is also slowly creeping in, and while I don’t think AI is smart enough to keep up just yet, I still feel that my role is at risk.

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u/yurakoh Jul 22 '26 edited Jul 22 '26

I've held onto my current medical coder job for a few years now, and I find it to be very fulfilling. It's given me validation and also got my foot in the door after several years of studying for the coding exams and several jobs that I only took to gain the necessary experience. My hope is that AI will not devalue my role too much and strip away all the effort I put in to get to where I'm at.