The Medical Insurance and Coding Specialist is trained to work with health- related information and the systems used to collect, process, store, retrieve, and communicate information for the support operations, managements, and decision making in a medical facility or related industry. As computerization of information advances the Medical Insurance and Coding Specialist is vital to the processing and patient care data analysis. Students receive instructional and hands-on training in medical terminology, law and ethics, anatomy, and physiology, insurance billing and coding, insurance claims and reports, medical office procedures, records management software, accounts receivable, posting accounts and Internet.

Each course is a unique study allowing the student to have hands-on training in the classroom and lab. The classroom is set up for the combination of class and lab (simulating a business office). Each course will allow the student to learn the fundamentals and the structure of a Medical Coding Specialist. The Classroom lecture/lab is designed to help the students understand and utilize the importance of Medical Insurance, Insurance Management, Office Procedures/ Billing, Principles of Health Insurance, ICD-9, CPT-4 Coding, Professional Development and Professional Coding Certification.  

Students will attend class Monday through Friday. Two classes are available to students each lasting four hours in duration. Session I will be held from 9:00 am. through 1:00 p.m.  Session II will be held from 6:00 pm through 10:00 pm. There will be a ten-minute break every hour beginning at ten-minutes until the hour.

The externship is a crucial part of the students overall training to become a Medical Insurance Coding Specialist. The externship is undertaken following the successful completion of all classroom training and consists of 160 unpaid hours. Students will attend externship Monday through Friday for eight (8) hours each day, for a total of four (4) weeks. Students will attend externship in either a medical office or hospital setting where they will perform administrative tasks such as, writing communications, processing mail, bookkeeping, machine transcriptions, record keeping and filing, and completing and processing medical insurance claim forms.