Coding Reimbursement Specialist

One of the most difficult challenges facing the healthcare industry today is reimbursement.  This program teaches the entire reimbursement cycle from documentation of services to posting receipts to individual patient accounts.  A special element of reimbursement is called medical coding.  This program follows the competency requirements of our educational partner, the American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC); and both qualifies and prepares the student to pass that exam and become a  Certified Professional Coder (CPC).  Successful students graduating from this program will be qualified to work in any healthcare reimbursement capacity on an entry level.  Graduates with these skills and CPC certification are in very high demand today.

Program Requirements

The Coding and Reimbursement Specialist reads and interprets the medical records of patients in all types of health care facilities to obtain detailed information regarding their diseases, injuries, surgical operations and other procedures. This specialist then assigns codes using specific code sets. A person wanting to become a Coding and Reimbursement Specialist should have an interest in working with medical information and be comfortable working at a job that involves significant computer work and is detail driven.

The Coding and Reimbursement Specialist program is designed to be completed in one year. Students must place at or above the following levels on the Placement Test: WR 115 Introduction to College Writing and MTH 060 Introduction to Algebra.