Hi N.! I am a Recruiter for a healthcare organization in the suburbs. I just interviewed a graduate from one of the Olympia College programs, and she was disappointed in the program. I sure hope you have a good schooling experience. At our hospitals, we typically do not hire fresh students from the billing/coding program into a coding or collections position. We require previous experience, and our coders have to be a CCS, RHIT, or RHIA plus have previous coding experience. However, I do hire new grads into a Registration position and I think this is a great starting position because it allows you to learn how the entire billing process begins, etc.. Then you can always learn and possibly promote into a patient financial services position and eventually learn the coding component. I don't want to sound discouraging, but I am being honest on what experience our hospitals require. You may find physician offices to be more open in hiring fresh grads from the billing/coding classes into their billing/collection/coding positions. I hope this helps! Feel free to email me with questions.