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Course Criteria
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12.00 Credits
Full-time, ten-week (40 hours/week) supervised experience in a public health-service organization. Opportunity to integrate skills and concepts from courses taken toward the M.P.H. degree in health administration. Prerequisite: M.P.H. degree core courses.
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3.00 Credits
Introduces pharmacology, including a review of pharmaceuticals used in diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of disease as commonly encountered in medical records. Prerequisite: HLCS 239; or equivalent.
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3.00 Credits
Surveys human diseases, including the etiology, pathogenesis, and clinical manifestations of commonly encountered diseases. Prerequisite: AHCJ 235* (*may be taken concurrently).
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3.00 Credits
Introduces health care facilities and the information systems involving health records. In-depth study of health-record content, confidentiality of health care information, and professional ethics.
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2.00 Credits
Prefixes, suffixes, and root words used in the language of medicine. Terms pertaining to pathology and surgery. Terms studied by body system: gastroenterology, cardiology, neurology, musculoskeletal, dermatology, and respiratory. Prerequisite: Writing assessment of the English language.
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4.00 Credits
Principles and conventions of ICD-9-CM coding in diseases and procedures pertaining to infectious disease; diseases of blood, endocrine, respiratory, digestive, genitourinary, skin, and musculoskeletal systems; and mental disorders. Includes one-hour weekly laboratory to enhance coding proficiency. Prerequisite: HLCS 236; or equivalent.
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4.00 Credits
Principles and conventions of ICD-9-CM coding in diseases and procedures pertaining to pregnancy, perinatal conditions, poisonings, injuries, complications of medical and surgical care, the circulatory system, and neoplasms. Includes one-hour weekly laboratory using actual patient record to enhance coding proficiency. Prerequisite: HLCS 242.
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4.00 Credits
Principles of current procedural coding (CPT) at the intermediate level-- including: surgical coding for all body systems; medical procedures; anesthesia coding; radiology, pathology, and laboratory coding. Modifier assignment. Also includes two-hour weekly laboratory practice on 3M software. Prerequisite: HLCS 243.
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3.00 Credits
Principles of billing and third-party reimbursement as they relate to physician professional coding and APC assignment for health care institutions. Includes E & M coding conventions and modifiers. Coding for physician-practice settings--including outpatient, inpatient, ER, observation, SNF, and other common settings. Principles of health service billing covered, including billing terminologies, the billing process, and the universal billing forms. Includes one-hour weekly laboratory practice using actual patient records and 3M encoding software to enhance student proficiency. Prerequisite: HLCS 245.
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3.00 Credits
Coding-system usage by reimbursement agencies, laws governing these processes, and federally supervised coding auditing to assure that the laws of coding are followed. Health care-delivery systems and internal billing and reimbursement in these settings. Requirements of state and federal coding regulatory agencies, ethics of coding, coding quality, and coding compliance. Content varies to accommodate the changing nature of health care-reimbursement processes and laws. Prerequisite: HLCS 245.
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