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This course provides an overview of how health care is primarily structured and delivered in the U.S. Topics include how different components of the health care system interact with one another to serve health care needs. Students explore complex and critical issues facing the health care delivery system in the United States.

This course introduces basic financial management and accounting methods and procedures for health care organizations. Students apply financial management concepts that assist managers in planning, monitoring, and controlling an organization’s operations.

This Course Covers The Basic Principles Of Coding With Cpt/hcpcs. Instruction Emphasizes Outpatient Coding, Including Structure, Rules And Guidelines. Students Develop Skills In Using Cpt To Report Reimbursable Services.

This Course Addresses The Coding Systems Used In Hospitals And Nursing Homes With Emphasis On Icd-9-cm (international Classification Of Diseases). Implications Of Diagnostic Related Groups (drgs) And Their Relationship To Coding Assignment And Financing Of Hospital Care Are Also Covered. Theory And Practice Are Provided In Coding Problem-solving And Data Quality Control Measures.

This course provides the procedures to achieve accurate billing for medical services. Students examine procedural and legal implications of the medical billing process, as well as how to fill out claim forms used in hospitals and physician practices.

This is the second course in the billing series. Topics in the introductory course are expanded and developed to a higher level of competency, including managed care, refunds, appeals, workers’ compensation, and audits.

Prerequisite: BC116a This course introduces Microsoft Access 2007 database management software. Students develop the skills required to use a database files and reports. Related topics include navigating the Access interface, structuring tables, designing queries, creating forms, and mitigating database design issues. Students will complete a comprehensive database project in which they apply the concepts learned in the class.

This class introduces students to basic computer terms and concepts. It also provides the hands-on experience and skills development necessary to perform tasks in word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation software programs.

3.00 Semester Hours/45 Lecture Hours Prerequisite: None This course offers theoretical background and historical development of contemporary health care systems. It also introduces students to the management functions of planning, organizing, decision making, staffing and controlling in conventional and integrative health care systems,

3.00 Semester Hours/45 Lecture Hours Prerequisite: None This course introduces students to basic principles of informal logic and standards of intellectual reasoning. Topics include the stages of critical thinking, points of view, assumptions and inferences, self-deception, bias and egocentrism, fallacies, and inductive strengths and weaknesses. Students use critical thinking skills to analyze and solve problems that face health care professionals

3.00 Semester Hours/45 Lecture Hours Prerequisite: None This course presents primary functions of the legal system, and how they affect the delivery of health care. Topics include legal terminology and concepts such as contracts, torts, due process, negligence, liability, etc. Students examine health-related legal theories such as informed consent, tort reform, privilege and confidentiality.

3.00 Semester Hours/45 Lecture Hours Prerequisite: None This Course Introduces The Key Concepts, Principles, And Practices Of Health Care Information Systems. Topics Include Applications Of Information Systems, Health Care Databases, Electronic Medical Records, Commercial Vendors, Decision Support Systems, Leading-edge Technologies, Departmental Design, And Record Retention, Analysis, And Evaluation. There Is A Special Emphasis On The Role Of Him Professionals And The Him Department In Modern Health Care Organizations.

3.00 Semester Hours/45 Lecture Hours Prerequisite: None This course covers the fundamentals of marketing for health care. Topics include exploring the meaning of marketing, consumer behavior, market segmentation, marketing ethics, and environmental influences that impact marketing.

3.00 Semester Hours/45 Lecture Hours Prerequisites: Bc116a, Hca200, Hca201, Hca202, Hca204 And Hca206 This Capstone Course For The Aa In Health Care Administration Covers Topics That Are Currently Important Within Health Care. Students Complete An In-depth Study Of A Topic Related To Their Career Interests.

Prerequisite: None This course focuses on whole numbers, fractions, ratios, proportions, the decimal system, and percents. Special emphasis is placed on the application of basic math skills to common workplace problems and real=life situations.

Prerequisite: None This course introduces self-awareness, heredity and environment, motivation, development and learning, perception, information processing, communication, and interpersonal relations. Important applications are made to situations people face in their work lives, including change management, stress management, goal-setting, and interpersonal relationships at work.

Prerequisite: None This course offers students insight into the foundations of the U.S. Constitution, and distribution of powers between federal and state governments, Students examine sp

3.00 Semester Hours/48 Lecture Hours Prerequisite: None This course reviews basic skills required for successful college writing, focusing on strategies to achieve effective content, organization and English usage. This course also helps students develop confidence in both personal and professional verbal presentation skills. Topics include audience evaluation, critical thinking, organization, effective listening, audience message retention, and the use of visual aids. May be substituted for GE218.

3.00 Semester Hours/48 Lecture Hours Prerequisite: None This course covers fundamentals of science, which include topics of life, health, matter, energy, plants, and animals and how they interrelate to local and earthly topology. Students review application of the scientific method as well as its limitations

Prerequisite: None In this course, students focus on developing writing skills through practice and revision of a variety of different types of essays. Students are also given instruction in library and online research and methods of documentation.

"In this course, students focus on research and developing writing skills through writing the ""argument"" essay. Students are also given instruction in library and online research and methods of documentation."

This course is a practical overview of desktop applications including word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation applications.

"This course addresses topics in contemporary mathematics such as inequalities, radicals, quadratic equations, rational functions, exponential, logarithmic, and graphing polynomial functions."

This course provides students with a general introduction to business activity and how it relates to our economic society. Students will explore how businesses are owned, organized, managed, and controlled.

Prerequisite: None This course provides undergraduate students with a comprehensive introduction to the business sector’s relationship to the principal forces operating in the ethical and legal environments. Particular attention is given to the constraints and opportunities presented by the regulatory environments in North America and the European Union. The course also provides an in-depth, comparative framework for understanding the ethical and intercultural challenges facing contemporary multinational and international organizations. With respect to the legal framework within which most business organizations operate, course topics include corporate problems of raising and maintaining capital by shares; relationships of directors to shareholders; respective rights and obligations;relationships of companies to third parties; control and the principle of majority rule.

"This course introduces students to financial accounting. Students can learn the fundamentals of the accounting cycle."

"This course focuses on Economic theory of the firm, resource allocation and price determination, the free market supply/demand mechanism, and pure and imperfect competition models are analyzed."

"Presents basic economic concepts emphasizing the part the United States plays in a global economy. Foundations of economic theory are presented, using topics from television news and mass media. Topics introduced are GDP, National Income Accounting, United States fiscal policy and economic growth."

"Students will study and apply the fundamentals of marketing within an organization and the contemporary market environment. The course will focus on marketing strategy and development of a marketing mix."

Students will study and apply the fundamentals of marketing within an organization and the contemporary market environment. The course will focus on marketing strategy and development of a marketing mix.

This course requires students completing their AABA degree to demonstrate knowledge learned throughout the program and apply the theories to real world issues. Students are expected to synthesize and integrate learning experiences acquired throughout their program and to evaluate research and current topics relative to their area of concentration.

This course provides the student with an introduction to the generic components of health record content within various health care settings. Special attention is given to the structure and use of health care data, including how these relate to primary and secondary medical record systems.

This course provides an introduction into the processes used in the health care industry for disease classifications and reimbursement. Students are introduced to disease, diagnostic procedures, and the processes used in classification, identification and categorization. Topics may include introduction to classification systems, coding, ICD coding, and inpatient reimbursement methods including Fee for Service, diagnostic related groupings, All Inclusive Rates, Risk Assignment and outpatient reimbursement. We will also examine the future of IT in the health sciences by looking at internet information, ethical and security issues.

This course provides intermediate CPT/HCPCS coding conventions and practices. Students are introduced to the skills, concepts and knowledge needed to provide and maintain reimbursement for organizations.

Continued Discussion Of The Processes Used In Medical Insurance For Coding And Billing. Students Are Introduced To Current Procedural Terminology (cpt) Processes And Using Cpt Errata. Topics Include Coding Systems And Traditional Reimbursement Methods.

This course is designed to provide a discussion of strategies for completing the allied health programs as an independent learner. In addition, it gives an introduction to health care and the role that medical office assistants, medical coders, and medical transcriptionists play in that industry.

This course covers the typical duties of the administrative assistant in any business office: task management, general business machines, telephone call management, business letter writing, electronic and print mail processing, travel and meeting planning, policy and procedures manuals, facility care and maintenance, as well as office math.

The Law and Ethics section of this course covers how law affects medical offices; the origin of law that affects medical professionals; the process of litigation and its alternatives; contract law and the ways it affects health professionals; the duties created between health care professionals and patients once a doctor-patient relationship is established; criminal law and torts that are relevant to the health profession. The Confidentiality in Allied Health section examines the common-law basis for the confidentiality of health care information and the laws regulating health care information collected and maintained by government agencies. also covered is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), as well as how the management of medical information affects the management and measurement of quality in health care.

Computer and Internet basics; computer hardware and software; digital electronics and file management; introduction to Windows®; PC applications in word processing, spreadsheets.

Introduction to medical terminology; chemistry/ laboratory; pharmacology; cells, tissues, and membranes; integumentary system; musculoskeletal system; blood and cardiovascular system; respiratory system; digestive system.

Sense organs; nervous system; endocrine system; urinary/excretory system; male and female reproductive systems; lymphatic system; oncology and radiation; surgery and pathology; genetics.

An introduction to basic pharmacology, as well as the type of drugs by body systems. Includes the drug's generic and trade names, use, side effects and drug interactions.

The Basics Of Coding, Exploration Of The Icd-9-cm And Cpt Manuals, Examination Of Specialty Areas Such As Cardiology And Obstetrics/gynecology, Radiology, Pathology, And Laboratory Work.

The Medical Coding 2 Course Utilizes The Application Of The Cpt And Icd-9-cm Classification Systems To Code Diagnoses And Procedures.

The Electronic Medical Records Management Certificate Program Provides A Basic Overview On How To Successfully Manage Electronic Medical Records (emrs) In Different Health Care Settings. Attendees Will Learn Emr Concepts, Terminology, Regulations, And Procedures, And Receive Hands-on Training With An Electronic Medical Record.

This course provides instruction on the basic types of writing you’ll encounter in a business environment. You’ll learn about business letters, forms, client records, and memos; organization, grammar, punctuation, and sentence and paragraph construction; coherent paragraphs, well-organized documents, and purpose-focused materials; and accurate, attractive, and effective final copies.