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Longer pieces on medical coding and billing programs, credentials and accreditation, written from the same datasets as the rankings and sourced the same way.
Programs
Medical coding programs outside the federal data
Penn Foster, Ashworth, MedCerts and similar providers are not colleges and do not appear in federal education data. What that changes about cost, financial aid and what you can check before enrolling.
Credentials
What "accredited" actually means on a medical coding program
Four markers get sold as accreditation and only one of them is. We counted both directories: no coding program is CAHIIM-accredited, and about two dozen hold AHIMA PCAP approval. Here is the list.
Programs
There is no bachelor's in medical coding, here is what there is instead
Why the four-year route out of coding is a health information management degree, what it opens, and when it is worth the time.