Language: English
Short Description: Medical Billing and Coding Specialists are essential to every healthcare organization, ensuring providers are accurately reimbursed for their services. This comprehensive program prepares learners for success in one of healthcare’s fastest?growing careers by building expertise in medical terminology, anatomy and physiology, insurance claims processing, and industry?standard coding systems. Offered through our accredited school partners, the program also includes preparation for the highly respected AAPC Certified Professional Coder (CPC®) certification.
Instructor Description: Though this course is self-paced, it is supported by a client adviser. Client advisers are available to answer student questions and monitor student progress to ensure completion of the course. Motivating and encouraging students, the client adviser gives students inspiration to succeed.
Certification: Upon completion of this program, learners will be eligible to sit for the AAPC Certified Professional Coder (CPC®) exam. Program tuition includes an exam voucher, one?year AAPC membership, and the recommended CPT®, ICD?10?CM, and HCPCS manuals, all approved for use during the certification exam.
Requirements
All required reference materials are provided with this program. Technical requirements:
Internet Connection
• Broadband or High-Speed (DSL, Cable, Wireless)
Hardware Requirements
• Processor - 2GHz Processor or Higher
• Memory - 1 GB RAM Minimum Recommended
Software Requirements
• Operating Systems - Windows 7, 8 or 10; Mac OS x 10 or higher
• Microsoft Office 2007, 2010 or 2013 or a Word Processing application to save and open Microsoft Office formats (.doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx)
• Internet Browsers - Google Chrome is highly recommended
• Cookies MUST be enabled
• Pop-ups MUST be allowed (Pop-up Blocker disabled)
• Adobe PDF Reader
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Lesson 1
Module 1: Healthcare Fundamentals
Module 2: Communication in Healthcare
Module 3: Medical Documentation and Record Keeping: HIPAA
Module 4: Medical Terminology
Module 5: Anatomy & Physiology
Module 6: Soft Skills
Module 7: Being a Medical Coder
Module 8: Medical Coding: CPT
Module 9: Medical Coding: ICD-10
Module 10: Medical Billing and Reimbursement
Module 11: The Evolution of CPT and ICD
Module 12: Legal Standards
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