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Health Technology

Medical Reimbursement Specialist (Billing) Program - HT2500

Students will acquire skills in the management of patient medical accounts standard healthcare billing methodologies.  Through the use of required books; students will use the terms and practical knowledge of: coding, insurances, acronyms, compliance, fraud, abuse and managed care.  Students may bring their own copy of the following books (older versions allowed) CPT (Professional or standard) and ICD-9, and HCPCS books.  Recommended prerequisites: keyboarding skills. Note: Students may voluntarily take the National Certification for Certified Medical Reimbursement Specialist (CMRS) offered by the American Medical Billing Association (AMBA) approved by the American Association of Professional Coders (AAPC) for 22 CEUs.  Tuition: $1,295

Enrollment Requirements:  Keyboarding skills - minimum 35wpm.

Course Duration:
80 Hours  

Course # Date Day Time Location Instructor
HT2500 OCT 29, 2011 - JAN 21, 2011 SA 8:00AM-4:30PM BS 106 Jonathan Domingo, CMRS
HT2500 FEB 4, 2012 - MAR 24, 2012 SA 8:00AM-4:30PM TBD Jonathan Domingo, CMRS
HT2500 APR 21, 2012 - JUN 9, 2012 SA 8:00AM-4:30PM TBD Jonathan Domingo, CMRS
HT2500 JUL 14, 2012 - SEP 1, 2012 SA 8:00AM-4:30PM TBD Jonathan Domingo, CMRS
HT2500 SEP 22, 2012 - NOV 10, 2012 SA 8:00AM-4:30PM TBD Jonathan Domingo, CMRS
Course Type:
Personal/Community Development

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
  1. Correlate medical terms to standard english descriptions for communication to non-medical audience.
  2. Deduce the accepted meanings of medical symbols and abbreviations.
  3. Use combining forms, prefixes, and suffixes to build medical words.
  4. Classify the organs of various body systems and describe their locations and functions.
  5. Employ accepted medical abbreviations in appropriate communication, including: medical records and reports.
  6. Analyze complicated medical terms and determine correct usage of word elements.
Learning Outcomes Assessments Used:

Participant Evaluations (Indirect Method)
Instructor Evaluation(s) (Indirect Method)

Completion:
Yes: N/A No: N/A

Reason for Non-Completion:
N/A
Student Reported Learning Objective Met:

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Applicable

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Strongly
Disagree

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Indifferent

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Agree

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Attendance Policy

Participants are expected to attend all class sessions. Sign-in sheets are completed at every class session. Participants must attend all classes in order to satisfactorily complete the course. For every fifteen (15) hours of instruction, one hour of instruction can be missed. Arriving more than 15 minutes late at the start of a class will be documented as a tardy or leaving more than 15 minutes early at the end of a class will be documented as an early departure.


Standards of Progress
Attendance, completion of assignments, quiz/exam scores, and satisfactory performance of all skills/tasks contribute to the overall grade. Possible grades include:

(CR) is used to indicate passing with a “C” or higher for non-credit courses. All assignments completed with a score of 70% or higher, a score of 70% or higher on each quiz/exam, and all skills performed satisfactorily.

(NC) is used to indicate not passing with a “C” or higher for non-credit courses. Participants earning a grade of “NC” may repeat a course once. Additional repeats may be allowed after discussion with a Program Coordinator, and participants may be required to repeat the entire course at an additional expense. Participants may not progress to the next higher level course until a “CR” grade is earned.

(I) is used to indicate that the participant has yet to complete one or more requirements by the scheduled end date of a course. Participants will be given an additional opportunity to successfully complete the requirements after instructors provide counseling/remediation. An additional fee may be required for remedial instruction beyond two (2) attempts. Participants that are unsuccessful after four (4) attempts shall be assigned a grade of “NC”. Completion of course requirements must be accomplished during the next offering of the program/course or the grade will be converted as “NC”.

Student Reported Satisfaction with Course
Yes: N/A
No: N/A
No Response: N/A
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