Medical Coding Certificate (MOC)
2017-2018
Type: Career, Certificate (C1)
Open Admissions
Division: Career & Tech Education & Bus
Medical Coding Certificate is a one-year comprehensive training program that will prepare students for entry-level coding positions in physician's office, hospitals, nursing homes, or other health agencies. The program emphasizes a science background as well as a working knowledge of ICD-9 and CPT-4 basic coding principles so that students may assign diagnostic and procedural codes to specific diagnoses, diseases, and procedures. Students will recognize the importance of a coder's position to ensure a successful medical practice. The capstone to this program is a Medical Coding Practicum where students will acquire actual hands-on work experience.
Students interested in participating in an academic program that involves working with children, the disabled, or the elderly, or which includes a clinical affiliation, internship, or field placement with a private or public healthcare provider, may be required to undergo criminal background checks, including a national as well as local check (i.e. Massachusetts Criminal Offender Record Information (CORI) and Sex Offender Record Information (SORI)). Depending on the contents of these criminal background check(s), a student's participation in an academic program that involves working with children, the disabled, or the elderly or which includes a clinical affiliation, internship or field placement with a private or public healthcare provider may not be allowed, and therefore may impact a student's ability to complete program requirements. Furthermore, please note that eligibility to participate in the program and/or clinical affiliation, internship or field placement as a result of screening requirements, such as criminal background checks, is not a guarantee of eligibility to sit for professional credentialing examination(s) or employment upon graduation.
First Year
Fall
| HLS102 | Anatomy & Physiology for Allied Health | 4 |
| OFT116 | Medical Terminology | 3 |
| OFT134 | ICD Coding | 3 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 10 |
Spring
| ALH118 | Third Party Reimbursement | 3 |
| ALH161 | Basics of Pharmacology | 1 |
| BIO206 | Human Diseases and Conditions | 3 |
| OFT136 | CPT-4 Coding | 3 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 10 |
Summer
| OFT138 | Medical Coding Practicum | 1 |
| OFT234 | Advanced Diagnosis and Procedure Coding | 3 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 4 |
Requirement Notes
HLS102: This requirement may be fulfilled by substituting BIO211 and BIO212 - Anatomy & Physiology 1 & 2 with grades of C (73%) or better.
OFT116: Students must attain a final grade of C- to meet graduation requirement.
OFT138 is a 30-hour supervised work place experience. Students must satisfy the following requirements to participate: A) Provide immunization record, B) Complete satisfactory CORI-SORI checks, and C) Obtain liability insurance.
Program Note
Communications and Mathematics proficiencies required to graduate.
See guided pathway sheets for advising information specific to your area of focus.
Total Credit Hours: 24