California Institute of Applied Technology (CIAT) and AAPC have joined forces to advance healthcare career education through an official training partnership. This collaboration brings together CIAT's hands-on, career-focused courses with AAPC's globally recognized credentialing system that prepares graduates to meet the rising demand for skilled medical coders and billers across healthcare organizations worldwide.
The American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC) is the world's largest training and credentialing organization for the business of healthcare, with over 200,000 members worldwide. Best known for the Certified Professional Coder (CPC) certification, AAPC offers a full portfolio of professional certifications covering medical coding, billing, auditing, compliance, and revenue cycle management. As an Official AAPC Training Partner, CIAT integrates AAPC's authoritative curriculum frameworks, CPC exam content guidelines, and certification pathways directly into our healthcare training programs, ensuring students graduate with credentials that healthcare organizations and employers recognize and trust.
Prepare for AAPC certifications including the CPC certification and specialty credentials that validate your skills to employers across the healthcare industry.
AAPC's certification exam content outlines are woven directly into CIAT's courses, so students build toward credentialing from day one.
Gain hands-on, practical experience through medical coding exercises, compliance documentation drills, and billing simulations that reflect real clinical environments and healthcare industry demands.
CIAT's exclusive unlimited exam-attempt policy allows students to retake AAPC certification exams as many times as needed until they pass, at no additional cost. This removes financial barriers and empowering every medical coder to pursue mastery with full confidence.
The demand for certified medical coders and billing professionals continues to grow as healthcare organizations expand and compliance requirements tighten. The right AAPC certification opens doors that technical skill and experience alone cannot. CIAT's training partnership with AAPC gives you a direct, structured path from completing our courses to entering the workforce as a career-ready, credentialed coder — with integrated preparation, unlimited exam attempts, and instructors who have real-world experience in the roles you're training for.
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