Students learn the fundamentals of medical billing and coding and are prepared to take the Certified Billing and Coding Specialist (CBCS) exam from the National Health career Association, the Certified Professional Coder (CPC®) exam from the American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC), and the Certified Coding Associate (CCA®) exam from the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA). Program topics include medical terminology; insurance plans; medical ethics; HIPAA; diagnostic and procedural coding; coding compliance and auditing; physician and hospital billing; Medicare, Medicaid, and TRICARE; EOBs, refunds, and appeals; workers' compensation; and electronic claims processing. Students receive in-depth training on ICD-10-CM/PCS, CPT, and HCPCS code assignment.
This course introduces basic concepts of use and maintenance of an Electronic Health Records (EHR) system, provides exposure to basic navigation of an EHR, and explores issues around privacy, security, government regulations and ethical legal aspects of health information technology environment.
This course presents
an overview of legal and ethical issues facing providers of healthcare. It
provides students with a foundation of health law and ethics and reviews a wide
variety of health care legal and ethical situations and dilemmas. The goals are
to provide students with practical knowledge of health laws and ethics and
their application in the real world of health care. By the end of the course,
students will have been exposed to many management ideas,
This course provides basic knowledge about the responsibilities for providing basic medical care to patients in a health care environment. Patient care tasks such as taking vital signs, assisting with daily living activities, observing patients and charting changes in their health or behavior, escorting patients and obtaining lab specimens will be key aspects in the learning of this course.
This class builds an
understanding of the structures of the human body including organs, systems,
and body as a whole, including a study of body cells and the types of tissues.
Students will be introduced to anatomical position and direction, as well as
body function balance, which include homeostasis, feedback loop, negative and
positive feedback. Students will also learn the root words, prefixes and
suffixes related to tissues, organs, systems body cavities, and the body as a
whole