Program Description Prepare for a career in the rapidly expanding medical coding field. Medical Coding Specialists are professionals skilled in classifying medical data from patient records, generally in the hospital setting. These coding practitioners review patients’ records and assign numeric codes for each diagnosis and procedure. Coding accuracy is highly important to healthcare organizations because of its impact on revenues and describing health outcomes.
This program will prepare students for job opportunities in hospitals, physicians’ offices, insurance companies, extended care facilities, or other medical environments. Good opportunities exist for individuals who wish to combine their interest in health care with the other professional skills, including organizing, analyzing, and technically evaluating health records content for accuracy and completeness and assigning code numbers to diagnoses and procedures for indexing health data and processing claims. Students who successfully graduate from the program are eligible to take national medical coding exams for certification.
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Degree & Certificate Requirements Courses Listed Alphabetically | Typical Student Schedule Courses are in the evening and late afternoon. Students must take BIO 105, BIO 127, and HT 126 prior to taking remaining courses. Students should check the Quarterly Schedule for the course schedule.
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Student may apply for a certificate upon completion and verification of all requirements and standards.
Program Outcomes Graduates will complete with the requisite skills and knowledge of organizing, analyzing, and technically evaluating health records content for accuracy and completeness and assigning code numbers to diagnoses and procedures for indexing health data and processing claims.
Application & Registration Program application and admission are not required. Students begin the program by registering for HT 126 Fundamentals of Medical Terminology and BIO 105 Essentials of Anatomy & Physiology. It is recommended that students have good typing skills (50 wpm), English skills, and word processing skills. A program brochure is available at the Counseling and Career Center.
