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Hello, I too graduated from M-Tec and have been doing MT part time for going on three years. Last winter I enrolled in the Career Step on line coding course. It was very thorough, tough, and challenging. I like the fact that it was all online meaning you could work on it from any computer. I passed their test the end of May and sat for the CPC certification test on August 4 and passed. Whether a course is good or bad, in my humble opinion, is not the question. The question is will this or that school give me what I need to pass the certification test? Because in coding, certification is the name of the game. I plan on retiring from my current job next June and transition into coding. In the meantime, I am keeping on on my reading, CEU credits, and attending chapter meetings. I felt the Career Step course did meet my expectations. Career Step is taking taking steps now to become accreditied, but I agree that the school is not the important thing--it is do you have the experience and certification? Coding is much more difficult to break into compared with MT. One often times has to take a related job and then move into coding or do an unpaid externship to get the experiece piece. Happy to answer any and all further questions. Yogagirl |