Medical Billing Specialist, Short-Term Certificate
The Medical Billing Specialist Certificate is a short-term program established to prepare students for employment in physicians' offices, medical insurance companies, and outpatient billing services. Medical Billing Specialists provide patient billing services for physicians, dentists, physical therapists, and other healthcare providers. They are knowledgeable in ICD-10-CM, CPT-4 and HCPCS coding, medical terminology; processing insurance claims, appeals and denials; fraud and abuse; HIPAA and OIG Compliance; information and web technology; reimbursement practices, and much more.
Courses
- BIO 1050 — BIO-1050 Human Biology
- BIO 105L — BIO-105L Human Biology Laboratory
- ENG 0995 — ENG-0995 Applied College Literacies
- ENG 1010 — ENG-1010 College Composition I
- ENG 101H — ENG-101H Honors College Composition I
- HIM 1113 — HIM-1113 Physician Office Coding with Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) Coding
- HIM 1114 — HIM-1114 Medical Office Coding with ICD-10-CM
- HIM 1122 — HIM-1122 Medical Billing Practices for Healthcare Providers
- HIM 1311 — HIM-1311 Legal Aspects of Health Care
- HIM 2131 — HIM-2131 Coding with CPT (Current Procedural Terminology)
- HTEC 1050 — HTEC-1050 Introduction to Medical Terminology
- HTEC 1060 — HTEC-1060 Medical Terminology I
- HTEC 2060 — HTEC-2060 Medical Terminology II
- IT 1090 — IT-1090 Computer Applications
- IT 109H — IT-109H Honors Computer Applications