Certifications ĪAPC offers a number of certifications for healthcare professionals, including:

These services include networking events such as medical coding seminars and conferences. Products and services ĪAPC provides training, certification, and other services to individuals and organizations across medical coding, medical billing, auditing, compliance, and practice management. In 2010, as their services had expanded beyond medical and outpatient coding, the full name was dropped in favor of the AAPC initialism. These settings include group practices and specialty centers (i.e. The AAPC was founded in 1988, as the American Academy of Professional Coders, with the aim of providing education and certification to coders working in physician-based settings. As of April 2019, AAPC has over 190,000 worldwide members, of which nearly 155,000 are certified.

AAPC is one of a number of providers who offer services such as certification and training to medical coders, medical billers, auditors, compliance managers, and practice managers in the United States. The AAPC, previously known by the full title of the American Academy of Professional Coders, is a professional association for people working in specific areas of administration within healthcare businesses in the United States.