About Coding Clarified

Who We Are

Coding Clarified is an AAPC licensed medical coding school as well as a U.S. Department of Labor registered apprenticeship sponsor. Since 2015, more than 1,000 students have trained here, earned their CPC certification, and launched careers — many starting as young parents, career changers, and first-generation college students, just like our founder.

In 2026, AAPC featured our program in its case study, Coding Clarified Gives New Coders a Way Into the Workforce.

What We Do

• Medical Coding Training — AAPC-approved CPC preparation, Practicode, and a guaranteed internship. When you finish our program, you graduate with the experience AAPC requires to remove the A from your CPC-A.
• Registered Apprenticeships — DOL-registered, earn-while-you-learn programs for Medical Coders, EMTs, and Paramedics, with grant funding available for qualifying employers.
• EMS Documentation & QA/QI — documentation training, quality assurance programs, and live coaching for ambulance services nationwide.
• Consulting & Auditing — ensuring medical records feature accurate, complete, compliant clinical documentation.

From the classroom to the ambulance to the billing office — let us clarify coding for you.

What Is Medical Coding?

Medical coding is the language of healthcare finances and data. In short, coders translate every diagnosis, procedure, treatment, and piece of equipment into a standardized code that everyone in healthcare understands. When you visit a doctor, ride in an ambulance, or get lab work done, a trained specialist reviews the records and assigns those codes.

As a result, those codes help providers receive accurate payment, keep insurance billing honest, and keep patient records complete. It’s the behind-the-scenes work that keeps the entire healthcare system running — and it’s a skilled, in-demand, work-from-home-friendly career you can train for in months, not years.

Meet Our Founder

Janine Mothershed, CPC, CPC-I, CADS, CAC — Founder & Lead Instructor

Janine founded Coding Clarified in 2015 after building her career the hard way: a young mom, the first in her family to attend college, choosing medical coding so she could support her children and be home to raise them. Her first certified job paid $18 an hour. She turned it into contract work with The Coding Network, then a CMS auditing role with Optum — and went from paycheck to paycheck to a career that changed her family’s future.

“I know firsthand this isn’t easy — that’s exactly why I built this school. Back then, I studied at the kitchen table after my kids went to bed. I earned every inch of this career, and no one handed me any of it. So I won’t tell you it’s easy, because it isn’t. I’ll tell you the truth: hard things come to the people who work for them. If you’re willing to put in the work, I’ll teach you the skills — and I’ll be in your corner the whole way.”

With over 20 years of professional coding experience and 20 years in EMS — holding the CAC (Certified Ambulance Coder) and CADS (Certified Ambulance Documentation Specialist) credentials from NAAC — Janine teaches coding and ambulance documentation from real field experience, not just a textbook. She’s a proud mom of five (four girls and one boy) and recently welcomed two grandchildren.