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Course Criteria
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2.00 Credits
Twelve week (six hours per week) coding laboratory provides a capstone experience for students who have completed all academic course work in coding. Enables students to apply all state and national coding and reimbursement regulations to a variety of inpatient and outpatient records. Provides students the opportunity to improve speed and accuracy prior to entering the job force. Prerequisite: HLCS 257.
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2.00 Credits
Continues HLCS 961. HLCS 962 includes an additional twelve week (six hours per week) coding laboratory experience under direct supervision of an instructor. Prerequisite: HLCS 961.
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4.00 Credits
Prepares the bilingual student for entry into medical interpretation for the health care setting. Provides a basic introduction to medical terminology, anatomy and physiology, pathology (disease process), pharmacology, surgical procedures, U.S. Health care delivery systems, medical-legal issues, and professionalism. Prerequisite: Language proficiency test.
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4.00 Credits
History of health records, professional ethics, and the administration of health-information management as a profession and as a health care-facility service. Techniques for numbering and filing records. Principles of indexes and registers, and retention of records. Overview of nomenclatures and classification systems. Philosophy of accreditation, certification, and licensure standards for hospitals. Introduces health care-reimbursement systems. In-depth study of patient records, including content and documentation formats. Compares hospital versus ambulatory care records.
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3.00 Credits
Principles of disease and operation classification (coding) using ICD-9-CM. Basic coding techniques for diagnoses, surgical procedures, symptomatology, and other reasons for health care encounters. Coding techniques by topic: infectious disease, endocrine, nutritional, metabolic, hematologic, nervous system, sense organs, respiratory, genitourinary, skin, and musculoskeletal diseases. Prerequisite: AHCJ 402* (*may be taken concurrently).
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3.00 Credits
Continues review of disease and operation coding with ICD-9-CM. Emphasizes obstetrical and newborn coding, trauma, poisonings, complications of surgical and medical care, diseases and procedures of the circulatory system, and neoplasms. Includes history, principles, and purpose of other recognized systems of nomenclature and classification in health care, with associated use of disease and operation indexes. Prerequisite: HLIN 303).
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3.00 Credits
Problem-solving approach to health care statistical applications and data presentation. Introduces research statistics. Laboratory sessions include instruction in the use of Microsoft Excel for data presentation and analysis.
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2.00 Credits
Principles of evaluation and management coding and E & M modifier assignment pertaining to physician professional billing and institutional APC assignment. Coding for physician practice settings includes outpatient, inpatient, ER, observation, SNF, and other common practice settings. Principles of health-service billing covered--including billingterminologies, the billing process, universal billing forms; and reimbursement under commercial, managed care, and federally funded insurance plans. Prerequisite: HLIN 303, HLIN 304.
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2.00 Credits
Provides understanding of pharmacology as required for medical-record analysis, audits, and other related studies. Basic definitions, sources of information, classification of drugs, and principles and mechanisms of drug actions.
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1.00 Credits
Supervised experience in health information departments and other areas of health care facilities. Includes applied laboratory assignments for HIM professional courses.
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