Yes, this course does qualify for the educational credit and will count for one of the two years required to remove the apprentice tag on the CPC exam. That said, we do not recommend Practicode for most of our students. Far better to be paid for a year of work than to pay for the additional practice you don't need.
Here's the really important part. Most employers do not actually care significantly about the -A on the CPC. The ones who absolutely, full-stop, will not hire a CPC-A still won't hire you if you drop the -A with our course and Practicode. It's not the -A those employers care about, it's the work experience. You're still not going to have work experience on your resume. Both Practicode and our course are accepted in lieu of work experience by AAPC, but they don't count as anything other than education on your resume.
At the same time, the CPC and the CPC-A are the exact same credential. Most employers are not going to repeat the credential both ways in the job listing, they're just going to list "CPC" as a requirement or preference. If you have the CPC-A, you still meet that qualification.
Most employers will also list 1-2 years of experience as a requirement. Unless they phrase it so there's no question ("We will not accept anyone with less than 2 years of experience," for example), you'll want to apply anyway. You don't have to meet every single bullet point in the requirement list to apply. The worst that happens is being rejected or not hearing back at all. You've spent some time on the application and it didn't work out. But you also will learn a little with each application you put out, you'll get better at the next one and the next one and the next one, and you'll find some employers who will look past that lack of experience. It's like the practice you're putting in with each question and report you code in the course.
You're going to be up against other applicants, and sometimes they will have both the credential and the experience, plus whatever else is in the requirements. But sometimes they'll crash in the interview, or refuse the job offer, and the employer will go back to the people who met some but not all of their requirements. Or maybe your application catches their attention and they give you the chance at the same time as those other "perfect" applicants. Don't write yourself off from applying just because you don't have work experience yet or just because you still have the -A on your credential.