Medical Assistant - Billing and Coding Specialist program at Central Florida Institute

Male Speaker: The Medical Assistant Billing and Coding Specialist program at Central Florida Institute provides you with the skills you need to become an essential and versatile member of a medical practice. The skills you learn at CFI will help make you an in-demand medical professional.

Lili Rodriguez: Billing encoding is very much in demand. There are a lot of places you can see in the newspapers, you can see in job ads that they are looking for billing encoders, it's a huge door that you can walk into, so many different places you can work at, there are varieties of different types of places that you can work in and I like that variety, I like having my options open.

Andrea Gregg: Well billing encoding is one of the most lucrative markets right now and for the medical field it's constantly growing so I really, really love billing encoding and I emphasize to all my students the importance of the changing times in which they can grow and this is a market where they can take any position as a billing encoder, whether it's front desk to the back office to office manager to any other field because it gives you that entrance to go somewhere else.

Male Speaker: Becoming certified as both a medical assistant and a coding specialist makes you a vital and flexible asset to future employers as the healthcare industry continues to evolve.

Andrea Gregg: I actually teach the students from the very first time that they go into an office how to do front desk all the way until they get into back desk so that when they do go out here in this field, they don't just go out there looking for one job title, they can assume any position, and that's where they're considered billing encoders multitasking medical assistants here at CFI.

Ann McKnight: The medical field is changing every day so you have to be able to adapt and change with it. And having the medical billing and the medical assistant certifications will help you do that.

Andrea Gregg: You can look for work anywhere - surgical centers, medical facilities, hospitals, physician's offices, specialty offices, rehabilitation, home healthcare. Billing encoding does not just stop at one particular specialty, it's an overall thing. You can do it at home.

Male Speaker: Growth opportunities and the flexibility to change the area in which you specialize helps make the Medical Assistant Billing Encoding Specialist program at Central Florida Institute an exciting career path.

Andrea Gregg: I teach the students that they are not just billing encoders, they are insurance verification people, they are medical assistants, they are check-in check-out. You can go into avenue of an office with billing encoding - front desk receptionist gets you started, just to get your foot in the door. Billing encoding has so many different avenues for you to grow.

Ann McKnight: I'm hoping to find a job in a doctor's office or even a hospital, having the dual certifications you never know. All my options are out there, the doors are wide open.

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