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Is AA or certificate better or? - New Career

Posted: Jan 04, 2011

IS a Associates or certificate better in Coding? Does it matter as long as you pass the exam which one you have?

Neither of those matters. What matters is that you are - able to pass a certification exam

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Most Associate Degree courses and/or Certificate courses are more like an introduction to coding. They don't really teach you enough to pass the certification exams with AHIMA or AAPC. That's what's needed to get most coding jobs though. I'm not talking about the coding jobs where you are in a doctor's office and check off the boxes when the patient comes out of the room. That isn't coding. I'm not talking about people who work in the Billing Department. That also is not coding. For a real coding job, an AA or certificate isn't the answer.

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