This course provides the student with a basic understanding of coding and classification systems in order to assign valid diagnostic and procedural codes.

 

This course provides the student with a basic understanding of coding and classification systems in order to assign valid diagnostic and procedural codes.

 

This course provides a foundation for handling common legal & ethical challenges in everyday practice. Legal concepts and theories in this course include: international & quasi-international torts, professional liability insurance, and documentation of allied health professional. Ethical components of the course include those that a professional may face on the job. The course will also cover common areas of liability and litigation in different healthcare settings.

 

This course provides the student with a historical development of healthcare delivery systems, including concepts and theory related to financing, regulatory agencies and organizations related to the providing of healthcare. Students are also introduced to software such as Medisoft for patient file creation, file maintenance, and insurance billing.

 

This course is an overview of both effective patient care and sound business practices in the medical facility. This course will include instruction on emerging developments in billing and coding, documentation, ethical and legal issues, and technological advances. Other topics that will be covered include: the medical record, fraud & compliance, responsibilities of the manager, and medical marketing.

 

This course provides the student with a basic understanding of medical terminology and its relationship to disease processes, diagnostic procedures, laboratory tests, abbreviations, drug, and treatment modalities. This course provides the student with a basic understanding of the structures and functions of the human body.

 

This course provides the student with a basic understanding pharmacology and its relationship to specific pathology of the human body, with an emphasis on pathology.

 

This course provides the student with a basic understanding pharmacology and its relationship to specific pathology of the human body, with an emphasis on pharmacology.

 

This course provides the student with a basic understanding of hospital medical billing procedures. Also covered are procedures to comply with insurance billing regulations.

 

This course builds upon the introductory module by providing information on the classifications of evaluation and management services and documentation. The course also addresses higher level methodology related to reimbursement.

 

This course will help familiarize students in the field of Evaluation & Management for billing & coding. Course covers concepts & theories including: an introduction to E/M coding and breakdown with practice and application of those concepts. Physicians bill evaluation and management (E/M) codes every day and is an essential part of a practice's revenue cycle.

 

This course will aid in preparing for the CPC Certification and highlights important content necessary to pass the CPC exam. Content areas include anatomy and terminology, reimbursement issues, and an overview of CPT, ICD-9-CM, and HCPCS coding. This course will simulate the examination experience to give added confidence when taking the CPC exam.

 

This course is designed as an introduction to health information technology - both as a work-based task-oriented function and as part of a larger profession of health information management. Theories and concepts covered in this course include: environment of health information, structure and processing of health information, maintenance and analysis of health information, and legal and supervisory issues.

 

This course covers the skills and knowledge required to perform administrative tasks in the administrative department of a medical office. Topics include, but are not limited to, receiving patients, scheduling appointments, patient triage, handling medical records, and processing insurance claims.

 

This course is designed to provide students with all the necessary tools to effectively communicate with patients and other health care professionals. Course covers theories and concepts including: building a framework for communication, challenges of communication and overcoming those obstacles, gathering information about the patient, educating patients, written communication, communicating in the workplace, and communicating to get the job you want.

 

This course is designed to help understand medical transcription and prepare for workplace success. Students will learn the fundamentals of medical transcription, understanding medical documents, proofreading, and the transcription process. The course will also build the skills needed in transcription through use of simulations.

 

This course will build upon skills learned in the Computers and Healthcare Delivery Systems course. Advanced computer systems to include medical software programs such as Medisoft will be explored. This course will include comprehensive HIPPA coverage.