Medical codingAcademic programFully online
Certificate in Medical Coding
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
- Instructor-led
- Scheduled live attendance
- Not published
- Start dates
- Scheduled start datesThe program only starts in the Fall.
- Expected duration
- 1 year and 4 months, part-time
- 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: Certificate in Medical CodingIssued by Rutgers School of Health Professions
- Academic credit
- Credit-bearing · 21 credits
- Professional credential preparation
- CCA — Certified Coding AssociateVoucher not confirmedGoal statement: content for AHIMA CCS or CCA.Provider statement
- CCS — Certified Coding SpecialistVoucher not confirmedGoal statement: content for AHIMA CCS or CCA.Provider statement
- CCA — Certified Coding Associate
- 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
- 21-credit, seven-course online certificate in medical coding taught in sequence over about 1 year 4 months part-time; Fall start only; credits transfer to the BS in Health Information Management.
- Main subjects
- Medical Terminology
- disease pathology
- ICD-10-CM
- ICD-10-PCS
- CPT
- reimbursement systems
- auditing coded data
- Coding systems covered
- ICD-10-CM, ICD-10-PCS, CPT, ICD-9-CM
- Billing and reimbursement content
- reimbursement methodologies and case mix analysis
- Medical terminology and anatomy
- Included
- Software or practice platform
- coding manuals and encoder software
- Practical exercises
- Not published
Admissions
- Educational prerequisites
- High school diploma or GED; Anatomy and Physiology I & II (8 credits) with grade C or better completed before start
- Audience
- Not published
- Age requirement
- Not published
- State or residency restrictions
- None published
- Technology requirements
- computer literate
Financial assistance
- Federal student aid
- Not confirmed
- Payment plan
- Not confirmed
- Other
- Tuition not on program page; refers to university tuition and fee rate tables
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Who is behind this program
- Institution marketing the program
- Rutgers School of Health Professions · University Research checked
- Actual training provider
- Rutgers School of Health Professions (same as the institution)
- Underlying program
- Certificate in Medical Coding
- 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.
- verifiedinstitutionshp.rutgers.edu“Certificate in Medical Coding”
- verifiedawardshp.rutgers.edu“Our Medical Coding Certificate program prepares students with the skills to classify and code medical data”
- verifieddurationshp.rutgers.edu“offered in specific sequence over a period of 1 year and 4 months, part-time. All course work is completed 100% online.”
- verifiedcurriculumshp.rutgers.edu“Students will study medical terminology, disease pathology, International Classification of Disease (ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS), Current P…”
- verifiedadmissionsshp.rutgers.edu“Applicants must have completed Anatomy and Physiology I & II with a grade of C or better prior to the start of program courses.”
- verifiedfinancial aidshp.rutgers.edu“For Tuition and Fees, please see the”
- verifiedofficial pageshp.rutgers.edu
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