ooh - here's an idea

i emailed the woman who used to be the medical records person at our facility and told her i was considering going to school for it, but it's expensive so i'm not sure. she advised me to look into a health unit coordinator program. it's what she had done, and then she managed to move up to medical records without the schooling. it's basically the same thing (perhaps with a little more receptionist-type work), but a heckuva lot cheaper. as in  ~$3,000 instead of  ~$33,000.