Associate Degree, Medical Billing and Coding

The Associate Degree in Medical Billing and Coding prepares the student for the exciting and demanding career in Medical Billing and Coding.

• ICD-9 – a set of codes used by physicians, hospitals, and allied health workers to indicate diagnosis for all patient encounters. This section will teach the student how to identify and classify medical procedures using ICD-9 codes.
• ICD-10 -a revision of the ICD-9-CM system which physicians and other providers currently use to code all diagnoses, symptoms, and procedures recorded in hospitals and physician practices. This section will teach the student how to identify and classify medical procedures using ICD-10 codes.
• CPT/HCPCS – Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) is a medical code set that is used to report medical, surgical, and diagnostic procedures and services to entities such as physicians, health insurance companies and accreditation organizations. This section will teach the student how to identify and classify medical procedures using CTP/HCPCS codes.
• Human Anatomy – basic overview of human anatomy and physiology.

Responsibilities:

• Protect the security of medical records to ensure that confidentiality is maintained.
• Review records for completeness, accuracy, and compliance with regulations.
• Retrieve patient medical records for physicians, technicians, or other medical personnel.
• Release information to persons or agencies according to regulations.
• Plan, develop, maintain, or operate a variety of health record indexes or storage and retrieval systems to collect, classify, store, or analyze information.
• Enter data, such as demographic characteristics, history and extent of disease, diagnostic procedures, or treatment into computer.
• Compile and maintain patients’ medical records to document condition and treatment and to provide data for research or cost control and care improvement efforts.
• Process and prepare business or government forms.
• Process patient admission or discharge documents, using appropriate computer software (MEDISOFT).

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