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Billing and Coding Degree - After Graduation

The billing and coding program at Mt. Hood Community College (MHCC) prepares you for work in physicians’ offices, hospitals, nursing facilities, or insurance companies.

Future Careers

MHCC Career Coaches are here to help you explore your career options after graduation. Below are a few common paths graduates can pursue.

Insurance Claims and Policy Processing Clerks

In these roles, your daily tasks will include preparing insurance claim forms or related documents, reviewing them for completeness, and calculating the claim amount.

Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants

In such roles, you will schedule and confirm patient diagnostic appointments, surgeries, or medical consultations and receive and route messages or documents, such as laboratory results, to appropriate staff.

Medical Records Specialists

As a medical records specialist, you will enter data, such as demographic characteristics, history and extent of disease, diagnostic procedures, or treatment, into the computer and identify, compile, abstract, and consult classification manuals to locate information about disease processes.

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