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  • About Us
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medical billing & coding

ConnCAT’s Medical Billing and Coding program is designed to fulfill the market demand for trained health system coders for public and private practice settings. 

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program benefits

Learn New Skills

Earn Certification

Earn Certification

This program provides adult learners the ability to analyze medical records and to identify and properly assign codes from the International Classification of Diseases (ICD‌-10-CM) and Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes to diagnoses and procedures. The program also provides comprehensive understanding of insurance and billing. 

Earn Certification

Earn Certification

Earn Certification

Graduates will qualify to sit for AAPC‘s CPC (Certified Professional Coder) and CPB (Certified Professional Biller) certification exams.

Start a New Career

Earn Certification

Start a New Career

Graduates of the program will possess skills relevant for positions in health insurance companies, physician offices, and medical billing services.  The need for medical billers and medical coders continues to increase with our aging population. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects a 11% rise in jobs by 2028.

program overview

Course Length

 1 week MBC Academy
30 weeks Classroom Instruction
200 hours Externship
 

Class Schedule

Monday through Friday, 8:30 AM – 2:30 PM
Externship schedule determined by extern site  


Course Outline

  •  Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) Coding
  • Health Information Management (HIM)
  • International Classification of Disease (ICD) Coding
  • Medical Terminology / Anatomy / Physiology and Disease Pathophysiology
  • Externship Training
    (coursework will also include keyboarding, computers, word processing, communications, professional development, financial literacy)


    This is a SNAP approved program offered at no cost to participants



externship

Externships allow ConnCAT students to demonstrate their skills and perform tasks practiced during didactic training in real health care environments and to function as a medical biller/coder trainee. It is important to us that externship experiences are are mutually beneficial. Thus externship sites can expect professionalism and productivity from ConnCAT externs. 


Upon successful completion of the 30-week, 900-hour didactic training, students will complete a 5-week, 200-hour externship as a health system billing and coding trainee.  

Externship Partners

Comprehensive Orthopedics

Wallingford, CT
Integrated Wellness

New Haven, CT
Family Eyecare Associates

Orange, CT
Heart Care Associates of CT, LLC 

Hamden, CT 

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