Medical Coding Specialist Certificate of Achievement
The Medical Coding Specialist Certificate of Achievement provides education for an entry-level position in a variety of healthcare settings such as acute care hospitals, physician offices, long-term care facilities, ambulatory care facilities, and more. The Medical Coding Specialist Program prepares students to abstract appropriate medical documentation and assign diagnostic and procedural codes in accordance with official coding and reporting guidelines and compliance regulations in order to facilitate reimbursement, analysis of patient outcomes, and research. Additionally, the Medical Coding Specialist Certificate of Achievement helps prepare students for a variety of entry-level medical coding certification examinations. After earning a Medical Coding Specialist Certificate of Achievement, students may be eligible to write for entry to a sorted array of medical coding certification exams
Courses
- MEDS B37 — Medical Terminology
- HEIT B60 — Human Form And Function
- HEIT B12 — Basic Pharmacology
- HEIT B13 — Human Disease
- HEIT B20 — International Classification of Diseases (ICD) Coding I
- HEIT B21 — International Classification of Diseases (ICD) Coding II
- HEIT B22 — Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) Coding
- HEIT B25 — Healthcare Reimbursement
- HEIT B31 — Professional Practice: Health Information Coding Specialist