The Medical Billing and Coding Specialist program prepares students you to take the Nationally Registered Certified Coding Specialist (NRCCS) Certification Exam. Students in this program must complete these courses successfully to earn a certificate of completion from North America Technical Institute: Medical Terminology, Health Care Systems and Management, Anatomy and Physiology, Health Care Regulations and Ethics, Pharmacology, Coding I, Coding II, Coding III, Electronic Medical Record, Electronic Medical Record, Coding IV, and Billing and Coding Professional Externship.
What you will learn after this course :
Apply CPT-4, ICD-10/ ICD-10 PCS, and HCPCS codes. 100%
Organize and keep records for hospital, clinics and physician offices. 100%
Select efficient procedures in filing patient medical records. 100%
Use a variety of filing systems, digital and paper. 100%
Demonstrate knowledge of anatomy, physiology, and medical terminology. 100%
Demonstrate knowledge of reimbursement methodologies. 100%
Model excellent customer service and understand attitude . 100%
Use technology tools and applications related to billing, coding, and office operations. 100%
MBC 101 Medical Terminology
This course will provide students with the medical words, terms and vocabulary used in health care occupations. Special focus on medical terminology used in these areas and systems: Human Body in Health and Disease, Skeletal, Muscular, Cardiovascular, Lymphatic and Immune, Respiratory Digestive, Urinary, Nervous, Eyes and Ears, Integumentary System, Endocrine, Reproductive, and Diagnostic Procedures and Pharmacology.
Clock Hours: 50
MBC 102 Health Care Systems and Management
Provides an operational overview of modern heath care systems and management including storing and retrieval of data, images and statistics, information integrity in medical records, finances, and regulatory organizations. Familiarizes students with the scope, role and range of medical records role in coding and billing, structure, data collection methods, security and documentation, data systems and explores important health indicators with emphasis on decision-making needs.
Clock Hours: 50
MBC 103 Anatomy and Physiology
Provides the student with a comprehensive understanding of the human body, it's major systems, organization, anf functions. Familiarizes students with thte anatomical structures of the human body and the impact of diseases on membrances, cellsm tissues, organs and organ systems.
Clock Hours: 50
MBC 104 Health Care Regulations and Ethics
Explore the legal and ethical issues facing professional health care workers and staff. The course reviews the current laws and regulations that are related to billing and coding, particularly confidentiality, privacy, security, ethics, and other key and relevant healthcare legislations. This course explores ways and means in adhering to the local, state and federal standards and regulations for the access, control and use of health care records and information.
Clock Hours: 50
MBC 105 Pharmacology
This course covers the fundamentals of pharmacology as they relate to the functions of a billing and coding professional. Identifies common drugs and their respective actions, drug regulation agencies, drug dosage, administration process, and affects, and reference material and outlines used by pharmacists to diagnose and treat common diseases of human body systems.
Clock Hours: 50
MBC 106 Coding I
This course outlines the purpose coding and the documentation process used in coding. Emphasis on assigning codes to diseases and medical conditions according to the ICD-10 coding system and ICD-10-CM manual and guidelines.
Clock Hours: 50
MBC 107 Coding II
This course involves extensive work in assigning codes for medical diagnosis, services, hospital and clinical procedures that do not fit into a specific coding category, using the CPT and HCPCS procedure coding system. Uses general coding for a variety of medical procedures and services in ICD-10-CM, HCPCS Level I, and HCPCS Level II procedure coding.
Clock Hours: 50
MBC 108 Coding III
Addresses the fundamentals of insurance, billing, coding, submission of claims (first and secondary) to insurance companies, verification of patient benefits, posting payments, and appealing denied claims by insurance carriers. Explores and researches real-life, and practice hands on billing and coding cases in an Electronic Medical Record.
50 Clock Hours Instruction and 50 Hours Lab: Total 100 Clock Hours
MBC 109 Coding IV
Enables students to use and apply ICD 10-OCS guidelines to code medical services and procedures, understand inpatient settings and medical records documentation. Covers clinical terms and terminology as well as classification systems.
Clock Hours: 50
MBC 110 Coding V
Enables students to code sets for medical services and procedures from combined and multiple medical areas and domains, utilizing real-life cases, situations, and scenarios. Emphasizes the guidelines for using code sets, individual or combination, in the respective medical area. provides students opportunities for understanding inpatient and outpatient settings in terms of coding and record documentation.
Clock Hours: 50
MBC 111 Electronic Medical Record
Traces the history of electronic health care record, issues, trends and challenges, and the transition phases from paper-based to digital. Emphasizes the differences and similarities between medical information, administrative and management support systems.
Clock Hours: 50
MBC 112 Billing and Coding Professional Externship
Analyzes the various guidelines, policies and procedures in the theory and practice of insurance, billing, coding, claims, patient benefits, submitting a secondary claim, payments, appealing the insurance agency’s decision, and documentation. Evaluates, hands on, the effectiveness of electronic medical systems. Applies the theory, concepts and skills learned throughout the program at an approved externship site.
Clock Hours: 100