The Medical Insurance Coding and Billing Specialist program at Alaska Career College provides you with all the education and training you need to have a career in this important part of the healthcare industry. As a Medical Insurance Coding and Billing Specialist, you will play an integral role in your employer's office by helping your employer collect monetary reimbursements from patient insurance providers. Medical Insurance Coding and Billing Specialists follow administrative, ethical, and legal requirements for safeguarding patient privacy in addition to adding diagnosis and procedure codes for patient care, population health statistics, and billing purposes. Although specialists do not provide direct patient care, they regularly work with other healthcare workers to clarify diagnoses and accurately document patient information.