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Medical Billing & Coding

Vallejo Adult School · Fairfield, CA

Cost
$1,995
Length
11 weeks
Working 6 months later
Not reported

Program names and program descriptions appear here in English, because that is the only language the federal and state records publish them in. Occupation titles are translated where O*NET publishes a Spanish name. Everything else on this page is translated.

What happened to people who took this

People enrolled
30
Finished the program
75%Based on 40 peopleTypical California program: 85% of 1,951 reportingThat median pools every California program that reported this measure, whatever its length, credential, or field, and leaves out the ones that reported nothing. It is a reference point, not a rating of this program.
Working 6 months later
Not reported
Earnings in one quarter after
Not reported

The jobs this trains for

This describes the jobs people do, not the classes this program teaches. It comes from the U.S. Department of Labor, which asks people already doing the work. The Department publishes it in English only, so the job names and the sentences below stay in English on this page.

Trains for more than one job. The outlook shown is the weakest of them.

Where California publishes a separate figure for Vallejo MSA (Solano County), it appears beneath the statewide one. Statewide stays the headline: people who train here do not necessarily work here.

Medical Records Specialists

Job ads may call this: Coder · Medical Records Clerk · Health Information Clerk · Medical Records Coordinator

The Department publishes no list of daily tasks for this job. This is how it describes the work instead.

Compile, process, and maintain medical records of hospital and clinic patients in a manner consistent with medical, administrative, ethical, legal, and regulatory requirements of the healthcare system. Classify medical and healthcare concepts, including diagnosis, procedures, medical services, and equipment, into the healthcare industry's numerical coding system. Includes medical coders.

What this pays in Vallejo MSA (Solano County)

Each bar runs from the lowest-paid tenth to the highest-paid tenth. The darker middle is where half the people are, and the line is the median.

AreaThe lowest-paid tenth earn underHalf earn underThe highest-paid tenth earn over
Vallejo MSA (Solano County)$47,853$84,532$85,066
Across California$45,026$63,540$105,338

The federal Bureau of Labor Statistics' 2026 figures for Vallejo MSA (Solano County) beside the same figures for the whole state. A region can sit well below or above the statewide spread, and the statewide number is the one most often quoted — so where they differ, the local row is the one that describes the work near this program.

Typical pay in California
$63,540per yearVallejo MSA: $77,316
Projected openings
15,610Vallejo MSA: 160
Projected change
+15%
Usually needs
Postsecondary non-degree award

Getting in

Experience needed first
None
Training after you are hired
None

No earlier job experience is expected, and new hires are not put through a long training period. For work like this, a program is usually the way in.

These are the federal government's answers for the occupation, not rules this provider sets. California publishes the same two answers for every one of these jobs.

Health Information Technologists and Medical Registrars

Pay, hiring, and what people studied

Job ads may call this: Medical Records Analyst · Medical Records Director

The Department publishes no list of daily tasks for this job. This is how it describes the work instead.

Apply knowledge of healthcare and information systems to assist in the design, development, and continued modification and analysis of computerized healthcare systems. Abstract, collect, and analyze treatment and followup information of patients. May educate staff and assist in problem solving to promote the implementation of the healthcare information system. May design, develop, test, and implement databases with complete history, diagnosis, treatment, and health status to help monitor diseases.

Typical pay in California
$93,290per year
Projected openings
2,650
Projected change
+18.8%
Usually needs
Associate's degree

California publishes no separate figure for this job in Vallejo MSA. The statewide figures above are the only ones there are.

Getting in

Experience needed first
None
Training after you are hired
None

No earlier job experience is expected, and new hires are not put through a long training period. For work like this, a program is usually the way in.

Program details

This program provides online instruction, e-learning, or distance learning only.

A program that prepares individuals to perform specialized data entry classification and record-keeping procedures related to medical diagnostic treatment billing and insurance documentation. Includes instruction in medical records and insurance software applications basic anatomy and physiology medical terminology fundamentals of medical science and treatment procedures data classification and coding data entry skills and regulations relating to Medicare and insurance documentation.Our online programs are designed to train students for entry-level, medical coding, billing, transcription, data processing and record keeping. Courses will teach you to assign correct medical diagnoses (ICD-10), procedures (CPT) and supply (HCPCS Level II) code in a variety of healthcare settings. Licensure and certification will vary among job requirements. This program offers career readiness planning but does not offer job placement or externship placement.

Someone else may be able to pay for this

This program was on California's Eligible Training Provider List when the state last reported it to the U.S. Department of Labor (2026-09-18). Programs on that list can be paid for through an Individual Training Account. Listings are renewed periodically and can lapse, so a program listed when the state last reported may not be listed today. Ask before you rely on it.

Ask before you enroll, not after

The order the rules set out starts at the center rather than at the school. Before a center can find somebody eligible for training services it has to gather enough to decide, at a minimum through an interview, evaluation or assessment and career planning. Referring a person to the provider they have chosen and setting up the account both come after that, and both are the center's to do — the account is a payment agreement with the training provider, and it is the provider that is paid through it. So the call belongs before enrolling and before paying. Anyone who has already done either should still ask, and ask what it means for them.

The place to ask is an America's Job Center of California

  • America`s Job Center of California - FairfieldAffiliate site

    Phone: 707-863-3500

    500 Chadbourne RoadSuite AFairfield, CA 94534about 2.1 miles away

    Hours: Monday - Friday, 8:00am to 5:00pm

  • CareerPoint NapaComprehensive center

    Phone: 707-253-4134

    2751 Napa Valley Corporate DriveBldg A. Suite 106Napa, CA 94559about 8.6 miles away

    Hours: Monday - Friday 8:30am-4:30pm

  • America`s Job Center of California - VallejoComprehensive center

    Phone: 707-648-4024

    1440 Marin StreetVallejo, CA 94590about 11.1 miles away

    Hours: Monday - Friday 8am- 5:00 pm

    Has a veterans' representative

At a comprehensive center all the required partner programs can be reached; an affiliate site offers some of them. Distances are straight-line, so the drive is longer. Call before you travel: opening hours here are as the federal directory published them, and the state notes its own staff are not present at every location.

Find a center anywhere in California, and check what is on the list today:
CareerOneStop — American Job Center Finder (U.S. DOL) · California EDD — Office Locator · California EDD — Eligible Training Provider List

How this gets paid for, and what to ask

Whether a person can have a program paid for is decided by their local workforce development board and the America's Job Center staff who interview them — not by this site, and not by the training provider. California has 45 local workforce development areas and each sets its own policies, so the answer can differ between two people in neighboring counties. Nothing here is a promise of funding or a determination of eligibility.

The rules cited here, and the state and federal sites linked to, are published in English.

How this site gets its figures, and what they do not tell you