This course involves learning elements and provisions of common medical insurance policies and their basic processes of handling claims. The student will also learn to define and describe features of CPT, HCPCS, ICD-9-CM and ADA coding systems.  In addition, the student will be able to apply, access, navigate, locate and print various medical billing systems. Also, the student will learn to add, save, access, edit and print patient accounts.

This course involves learning the processes and guidelines of medical coding and how they are utilized to create billable claims. The student will learn and understand the coding systems for ICD-9-CM, CPT-4 and HCPCS.  These rules will be used to code office notes, operative notes and billing slips/superbills. The student will be able to apply this knowledge in a number of physician-based offices and facilities.

This is an extensive course designed to give the new coding professional the requisite skills required to enter the hospital-based coding profession and prepare the student to take the national certification examination administered by the appropriate professional organizations. Students will learn how to properly classify medical data from patient records, review patient records, and assign numeric codes for each diagnosis and procedure. Coding accuracy is highly important to healthcare organizations because of the impact on revenues and describing health outcomes.

Non-Medical Transcription is a program designed for those students who want to enter into the law enforcement, insurance, criminal justice and business industries as an at-home transcriptionist.

Courses include instruction in the proper use of equipment, as well as in terminology, formatting, grammar and punctuation, improper English, including slang and verbatim, and confidentiality.