English / Spanish
Online / Hybrid
$100
$6.000
This Associate degree in Medical Administrative Billing and Coding program offers students the competencies to successfully apply coding procedures in healthcare practitioners and related field areas.
Students will learn various secretarial and administrative functions that relate to insurance claims, process compliance, and reimbursements.
This Associate degree in Medical Administrative Billing and Coding program offers students the competencies to successfully apply coding procedures in healthcare practitioners and related field areas.
Students will learn various secretarial and administrative functions that relate to insurance claims, process compliance, and reimbursements.
$100
$6.000
This Associate degree in Medical Administrative Billing and Coding program offers students the competencies to successfully apply coding procedures in healthcare practitioners and related field areas.
Students will learn various secretarial and administrative functions that relate to insurance claims, process compliance, and reimbursements.
The Associate degree in Medical Administration, Billing and Coding Program provides the students with the necessary knowledge and skills to apply billing and coding procedures to health insurance companies.
The on-line educational model in which educational platforms are connected to the Internet or Intranet. Through these platforms, there is information, planning, and communication systems, which allows professors and students to participate in virtual classrooms with various tools and learning applications, curriculum development, and evaluation including training materials, research, and links to other educational resources.
Academic activities take place asynchronously where the professors and students do not attend simultaneously to develop educational activities. Also, academic activities take place online or synchronously where there is simultaneous attendance for interaction between professors and students.
The hybrid educational model is characterized by systematically combining the in-person modality with virtual modality, based on television, radio, digital, and telephone physical resources, technological tools, and the interaction between professors and students. The educational platforms can be developed totally or partially autonomously by the students, that is, without requiring the presence or permanent guidance of the professor during its development.
900 h
* for reference only
900 h
This course provides a current perspective on the ethical behavior of organizations and how they intervene the immediate reality through the development of proposals based on principles of social responsibility. This knowledge provides the tools to intervene positively and consciously in individuals, organizations, and the community both locally and globally.
Prerequisito: Ninguno
This course includes the following topics: algebraic equations and inequalities; the concept of function and its related topics; It emphasizes the characteristics of polynomial, rational, exponential, and logarithmic functions, their properties, and graphs. Absolute value and radical functions. Composite and inverse functions.
Prerequisito: Ninguno
This course focuses on the basic elements of Composition and writing, for students to gain the writing skills necessary to express their ideas in accordance with the different forms used on academic environment. It will emphasize the importance of effective written communication in personal and professional contexts and provides the tools to identify effective strategies through critical analysis of written works, including strategies for planning, drafting, revising, and editing.
Prerequisito: Ninguno
This course includes the following basic topics of statistics: Data, absolute and relative frequency, and Graphic representations. Measures of central tendency, measures of position and dispersion. Linear correlation. Elements of inferential statistics. Parameter estimation and hypothesis testing. Use of computing tools to address statistics problems.
Prerequisito: Ninguno
This introductory course focuses on the study of human behavior and the factors that influence it, as well as the cognitive, affective and personality aspects that make it up. The knowledge acquired by students will provide them with a holistic view of human being and the fundamentals for understanding the foundations of the behavioral sciences.
The purpose of this course is allowing students to understand their role in society and making them capable of interpreting the social behavior. This course provides students with a basic understanding of how the society and working group’s function.
This course provides students with the foundational concepts of human anatomy and physiology. Topics include relationships between form and function, anatomical terminology, basic biochemistry, cells and tissues, and the integumentary, skeletal, muscular, nervous, endocrine, cardiovascular, lymphatic/immune, respiratory, digestive, and urinary systems
This course provides an introduction to entrepreneurship, as is analyzed, and identified. Students should be given attitudes and leadership that motivate them to undertake business ideas, so they are able to lead a successful project.
This course provides an overview of computer systems. Students learn to apply Microsoft® Office tools including word processing, spreadsheet, database, and presentation software to accomplish business objectives. Other topics include uses of application software and the Internet for effective problem solving, exploration of relevant emerging technologies, and how information is used across different industries.
This course in an introduction to the study of the structure of medical words and terms. Emphasis is placed on spelling and defining commonly used prefixes, suffixes, root words, their combining forms and body organization. Program content covers the basic human anatomy and physiology for all systems, laboratory medicine, pharmacology, elements of medical terms and names of major diseases, including terms used in physical exams, operative procedures, and diagnosis.
In this course, students will examine the procedures for medical services and understanding the different types of insurance programs.
In this course, students will continue to examine the procedures for medical services, understanding the different types of governmental and private third-party payers, workers’ compensation package, and disability coverage.
In this course students will acquire an overview of the legal environment as it affects medicine and business. Students will explore medical mal-practice, negligence, liability (physician, product, and corporate), the changing physician-patient relationship, the care of vulnerable and high-risk populations, amongst other topics.
This course provides students a detailed overview of relevant legislation, discussion of regulatory fines and penalties when performing medical auditing.
This course provides the student with the required skills to organize and manage patient health data in digital and hard-copy formats, ensuring the security, completeness and accuracy of patient data while keeping a sharp eye on details and potential discrepancies.
In this course, students will learn medical reports procedures such as filing, handling mail, and preparing budgets.
This course is focused on using diagnosis codes and billing systems correctly, with the official coding guidelines and with extensive practice coding exercises.
This course will continue to emphasize the rules and guidelines of the CPT and HCPCS II coding manuals. The course is designed to help the beginner coder learn and understand the concept of coding using the CPT and HCPCS II coding manuals.
This course will emphasize the rules and guidelines of the CPT coding manuals. The course is designed to help the beginner coder learn and understand the concept of coding using the CPT coding manuals. Course Language: Spanish/ English
This course is an introduction to basic diagnostic coding and presents students to the characteristics of the International Classification of Diseases (Clinical Modification), and other diagnostic coding systems or code sets.
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