Program Courses
Insurance Billing and Coding I
This course will prepare students for the necessary
procedures for medical billing and coding. It
will offer guidance for all elements of submitting,
tracing, compiling, appealing and transmitting
billing claims for insurance company procedures.
It will introduce students to various kinds of
health insurance and managed care models, including
Medicare. It will cover insurance claim collection
strategies.
Insurance Billing and Coding II
This course continues to prepare students for
the necessary procedures for medical billing
and coding. It will offer guidance for all elements
of submitting, tracing, compiling, appealing
and transmitting billing claims for insurance
company procedures. It will introduce students
to various kinds of health insurance and managed
care models, including Medicare. It will cover
insurance claim collection strategies.
Medical Machine Transcription
This course is designed to introduce the student
to machine transcription used in medical environments.
Students will learn how to operate machine transcription
equipment while keyboarding various medical documents
such as case histories, chart/progress notes,
physical examinations, and medical correspondence.
Students will transcribe advanced medical material
such as case histories, medical reports, conferences,
etc., in mailable format. Basic rules of capitalization,
number usage, punctuation and abbreviations in
transcribing medical documents will be emphasized.
Medical Office Procedures and Administration
The course prepares students
for the administrative skills medical administrative assistants need
to know. It covers relevant material dealing
with medical office & medical records management
skills, client services skills and responsibilities,
client education and legal and ethical issues.
This course will familiarize the student with
healthcare records management. The student will
learn how to build patient files, post entries,
complete patient billing procedures, generate
reports, complete and file medical records and
be introduced to coding for accurate insurance
billing.
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