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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course covers concepts and principles of law found in the healthcare field. The course focuses on legal issues regarding health information, including confidentiality, release of health information, consent forms, liability of healthcare providers, concepts and methods of risk management in the healthcare field, and other current medical/legal issues.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to healthcare delivery systems with emphasis on organizational compliance, structure and accreditation, licensing and/or certification with regulatory agencies. This course covers revenue cycle management, claims management, and bill reconciliation processes. Topics include chargemaster maintenance and health data classification.
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3.00 Credits
This course covers the concepts of computer applications related to healthcare. This course discusses healthcare data sets, health information specialty systems, document archival, retrieval and imaging systems, and data storage systems. Students demonstrate an understanding of various health information software applications coding tasks.
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3.00 Credits
This course covers quality assessment and improvement, providing a basis for developing skills in collecting and analyzing data. Topics include healthcare evaluation systems and the role of HIT professionals in quality improvement, clinical pathways, case management, utilization management, risk management, infection control, and medical staff credentialing.
Prerequisite:
HITT190 (C or better)
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3.00 Credits
This course covers health insurance products and managed care approaches to the financing and delivery of healthcare services. Students explore reimbursement and payment methodologies. Students examine forms, processes, practices, and the roles of health information professionals. Students discuss concepts in insurance, third-party and prospective payments, and managed care organizations.
Prerequisite:
HITT190 (C or better)
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3.00 Credits
This course is the study of pathological conditions and the drugs used in their treatment. Students study the description of conditions and diseases of the organ systems, including etiology, signs and symptoms, and methods of diagnosis and treatment. Students identify disease entities and describe appropriate diagnostic and treatment modalities.
Prerequisite:
MEDA120 (C or better) and BIOL181 (C or better)
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3.00 Credits
This course prepares students to work in various health care settings, performing assigned health information duties. The work experience is supported by knowledge and skills gained in pre-requisite courses, site liaison feedback, and externship instructor site visits.
Prerequisite:
Completion of all other HITT courses in the program with a grade of C or better and permission of the Department of Health Sciences
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3.00 Credits
Medical Coding/Billing Certificate students will apply coding/billing principles in a health care provider setting. Students will gain 120 hours of experience in International Classification of Diseases Coding Modifiers (current ICD curriculum) and Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) coding systems and related activities.
Prerequisite:
Completion of all courses in the Medical Coding/Billing Certificate program with a C or better and permission of the Department of Health Sciences
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3.00 Credits
This course covers principles of the International Classification of Diseases Coding Modifiers (current ICD curriculum), Current Procedural Terminology (CPT), and third party reimbursement. Students are provided with the fundamentals of a classification coding system used in health care industries.
Prerequisite:
MEDA120 or BIOL115
Corequisite:
MEDA120 or BIOL115
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3.00 Credits
This advanced course covers Current Procedural Terminology (CPT), International Classification of Diseases (current ICD curriculum), Health Care Procedural Coding Systems (HCPCS), modifier applications, evaluation and management services, and coding issues for specific body systems.
Prerequisite:
HITT297 (C or better)
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