Medical Coding Specialist Certificate

This course is a study and practical application of medical vocabulary system. Includes structure recognition analysis definition spelling pronunciation and combination of medical terms form prefixes suffixes roots and combining forms. (Fall Spring Summer)

This course emphasizes medical office coding for payment and reimbursement by patient or third-party payers for ambulatory care settings. (Fall)

This is a course of instruction in principles procedures and regulations involving legal and ethical relationships among physicians patients and medical assistants in ambulatory care settings.

This course emphasizes fundamentals of coding rules conventions and guidelines using clinical classification systems. (Fall)

This course is an introduction to systems and processes for collecting maintaining an disseminating primary and secondary health-related information including content of health record documentation requirements registries indices licensing regulatory agencies forms and screens. (Spring)

This course is a study of anatomy and physiology with emphasis on human pathophysiology including etiology prognosis medical treatment and signs of symptoms of common diseases of the body systems.

This course emphasizes structure and function of human cells tissues organs and systems with overview of common pathophysiology. (Spring)

This course places emphasis on fundamentals of ambulatory coding rules conventions and guidelines. (Spring)

This course provides an overview of the basic concepts of the pharmacological treatment of various diseases affecting major body systems.

This course is advanced concepts of ICD and CPT coding rules conventions and guidelines in complex case studies. Investigation of government regulations and changes in health care reporting. (Summer)

Introduces and develops foundational skills in applying essential and emerging business productivity information technology tools. The focus of this course is on business productivity software applications including word processing spreadsheets databases presentation graphics data analytics and business-oriented utilization of the internet.

This course consists of advanced coding techniques with emphasis on case studies health records and federal regulations regarding prospective payment systems and methods of reimbursement. (Summer)