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The
Medical Administrative Assistant program will prepare students
for work in the pre-hospital and hospital environments,
physicians' offices, urgent care facilities, and nursing
homes. Graduates will be prepared to perform traditional
medical administrative responsibilities including greeting
patients, scheduling appointments, filing records, purchasing
supplies and equipment, patient admissions, and insurance
billing and coding.
Course
Descriptions
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.
The
following are the books required for each course of the
program:
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Course
Name
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Book
Title
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Author
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ISBN
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Book
Cost
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Insurance
Billing and Coding I
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Insurance
Handbook for the Medical Office
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Marilyn
Fordney
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0.141600004
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$81.00
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Insurance
Billing and Coding II
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Insurance
Handbook for the Medical Office
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Marilyn
Fordney
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0.141600004
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Re-Used
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Medical
Machine Transcription
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Advanced
Medical Transcription: A Modular Approach
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Cindy
Destafano
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0.072169452
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$57.95
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Medical
Office Procedures and Administration
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Kinn's
The Administrative Medical Assistant: An Applied Learning
Approach
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Alexandra
Patricia Young
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0.072169102
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$52.95
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Total
Book Cost:
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$191.90
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