需求正在飙升! Use your skills and technology to analyze documentation and correctly report patient diagnoses and procedures for healthcare reimbursement.
Accurately and efficiently code healthcare information
Learn to analyze documentation and correctly report patient diagnoses and procedures for healthcare reimbursement. Medical coders require knowledge of biomedical sciences, 卫生保健供给, health information technology, and health record documentation.
Medical codes are used primarily for reimbursement purposes; however, medical codes are also used for public health, 研究, operational and organizational planning, and benchmarking purposes in healthcare.
In our Medical Coding class, you study:
- Basics of health records and technology, including how to read charts
- Medical terminology and pharmacology
- Human anatomy and physiology – the same class required by nursing programs
- Diagnostic and procedural coding in inpatient and outpatient settings
- 还款方法
- Legal and ethical issues in healthcare
You also learn why it’s important to understand national policy reform, including:
- HIPAA, the Health 保险 Portability and Accountability Act
- 有意义的使用
- 健康信息交流
- 消费者参与
- 安全法规
应用 your knowledge of health information technology, 卫生保健供给, and record documentation to your Medical Coding duties.
When you successfully complete the program, you are eligible for two credentialing examinations:
- Certified Professional Coder (CPC) offered by the American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC)
- Certified Coding Specialist (CCS) credentialing examination offered by AHIMA, the American Health Information Management Association
Connect with professors and industry experts
At 皇冠体育博彩, class sizes are limited for personalized attention. Professors ensure that resources evolve to stay on trend with the Medical Coding profession and help you attain real-world, 市场需要的技能.
皇冠体育博彩 prepares you for the workplace.
- A résumé-building required internship puts in an office setting to apply what you learned.
- Career counseling and an active job board help you find a job.
- Free memberships to both the national Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and the Greater Kansas City HIMSS chapter, giving you access to the industry’s most powerful resources with an immense network of industry professionals.
Should you decide to move on to a bachelor’s or master’s degree, your credits will transfer to the Healthcare Information Management program at The University of Kansas or Ottawa University’s clinical and nonclinical bachelor’s degree programs in Health Care Management除其他外. 看到我们的 传输指南 for details about other schools.
这可能就是你的未来
Job possibilities are numerous in hospital systems, 诊所, 提供者实践, safety net providers and software vendors:
- 认证编码员
- 认证编码专员
- Certified professional coder
- Medical billing professional
- 计费专业
- 保险理赔专员
- 收藏专家
- Release of information specialist
- 病人注册
Find employment projections and salary information at the Power BI Post Graduate Report.
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联系信息
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