Medical Coding - Bellingham Technical College

Medical Coding from Bellingham Technical College is a Campus Certificate Health Administration degree that prepares you for a Healthcare career. 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. The Medical Coding 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. 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. View more details on Bellingham Technical College . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Health Administration courses.