Medical codingAcademic programFully online
Medical Coding Certificate
Academic program. This is a credit-bearing academic program; check the award and credit details below.
Cost
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Delivery and schedule
- Format
- Fully online
- Pacing
- Not published
- Scheduled live attendance
- Not published
- Start dates
- Not published
- Expected duration
- Not published
- Weekly workload
- Not published
- Course access
- Not published
- In-person requirements
- None stated by the provider
Award and certification
- Award from the institution
- Academic certificate: Medical Coding CertificateIssued by Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College
- Academic credit
- Credit-bearing · 18 credits
- Professional credential preparation
- No exam preparation is stated by the provider
- Eligibility caveat
- Completing this program does not award a professional credential. Eligibility requirements are set by the credentialing body and may include separate education, membership or experience conditions.
Curriculum
- Overview
- Eighteen-credit credit certificate with six courses in biology, medical terminology, insurance billing, and procedure and diagnostic coding, delivered fully online.
- Main subjects
- Intro to Human Biology
- Medical Terminology I and II
- Medical Insurance and Billing
- Procedure Coding
- Diagnostic Coding
- Coding systems covered
- Not published
- Billing and reimbursement content
- OST-148 Med Ins & Billing
- Medical terminology and anatomy
- Not published
- Software or practice platform
- Not published
- Practical exercises
- Not published
Admissions
- Educational prerequisites
- MED and OST courses need a grade of C or better; no course prerequisites listed
- Audience
- Not published
- Age requirement
- Not published
- State or residency restrictions
- None published
- Technology requirements
- Not published
Financial assistance
- Federal student aid
- Not confirmed
- Payment plan
- Not confirmed
- Other
- Nothing published
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Who is behind this program
- Institution marketing the program
- Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College · Community college Research checked
- Actual training provider
- Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College (same as the institution)
- Underlying program
- Medical Office Administration: Medical Coding Certificate
- Institutional accreditation / approvals
- Not confirmedInstitutional accreditation does not mean a program is approved by a professional certification body.
Sources and review
Last reviewed October 18, 2026. Source check: “verified” means the quoted text was found on the page by an automated check; “pending” means not yet checked or the page could not be read.
- pendinginstitutionabtech.edu“The Medical Coding Certificate is offered 100% online.”
- pendingawardabtech.edu“Total Credit Hours Required: 18.”
- pendingcurriculumabtech.edu“OST-247, Procedure Coding (Summer only)”
- pendingadmissionsabtech.edu“may, with experience and additional training, lead to national certification”
- pendingofficial pageabtech.edu
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