MOA - Medical Office Administration & Coding

This course covers the basics of computer hardware and software, networks, the Internet, Outlook, Word and Excel.

A concentrated review of sentence writing, this course emphasizes sentence combining, basic mechanics, and paragraph writing.

In this course, students learn beginning typing and 10-key skills. The objectives are for students to learn how to type by touch and how to take a timed keyboarding test for accuracy and speed.

An introduction to the structure and function of the human body utilizing a system approach. Emphasis placed on the basics of human anatomy as well as the physiology of the skeletal system, muscular system, nervous system, cardiovascular, respiratory, urinary, reproductive, endocrine, digestive, lymphatic, special senses, and integumentary systems. This course will also cover the diseases and interventions commonly used in each system.

This course is an introduction to basic coding concepts. Focus is placed on using official coding guidelines correctly and the course includes extensive practice coding exercises.

Overview of commonly available software tools used in health care. Introduction to the electronic health record process and medical office database management software found in American health care delivery.

This course examines the ethical challenges facing individuals and businesses in modern society. The course utilizes case studies of professionals working in various areas of business and provides guest speakers with real-world experiences. Great emphasis is placed on HIPAA and Washington State privacy laws.

This course is designed to teach students to accurately spell, pronounce, and define common medical terms related to major disease processes, diagnostic procedures, laboratory tests, abbreviations, drugs, and treatment modalities.

Students learn advanced interviewing skills, how to construct a portfolio of their work, and job-seeking skills. This course will guide the student through the elements of career planning, including self-understanding and exploring a variety of medical career paths.

Overview of commonly available software tools used in health care. Introduction to the electronic health record process and medical office database management software found in American health care delivery.

This course will serve as a continuation of basic diagnostic coding and the characteristics and conventions of ICD-10-CM coding. A brief history of ICD-9 and the transition to ICD-10-CM will be covered. Students will analyze and discuss case studies using more complex code assignments with ICD-10-CM. This course will also provide some review in medical terminology and anatomy.

Students will study federal, state, and private health insurance plans including managed care systems. Students will learn the processing cycle of health insurance claims, health insurance terminology, reimbursement methodologies for professional services, and proper completion of the 1500 billing form. Students will have hands-on experience with simulated practice management software. An overview of billing system management reports and legal issues related to reimbursement processing. Students will learn math concepts associated with coinsurance, deductibles, allowables, and RVUs.

This course introduces and teaches the tasks of a medical office assistant’s career: how to perform administrative functions, records management, medical communications, scheduling appointments, and an introduction to patient billing and processing insurance claims. Emphasis is placed on developing a working knowledge of concepts, processes, and procedures in the billing cycle from point of service to receipt of payment. The course covers how to recognize components of a compliance plan for physician office billing, filing of appeals and focuses on decision making and critical thinking activities. Students will learn the importance of customer service in the medical industry. Effective verbal communication and telephone skills are taught. Problem resolution skills and how to handle difficult situations are important elements of this course. Students use Medisoft Practice Management to complete real-world scenarios.

This course provides students with advanced understanding of complex coding scenarios, with an emphasis on medical coding services such as medical visits, diagnostic testing and interpretation, treatments, surgeries, and anesthesia. This course covers more advanced coding concepts using step-by-step methods that give a more in-depth understanding of physician-based medical coding to ensure gathering the correct information from documents, selecting the right codes, and determining the correct sequencing of those codes.

This course is a continuation of Medical Reimbursement I. Students will continue to work through the same objectives for Medical Reimbursement I.

Students learn how to establish credibility in the workplace as well as the principles of interpersonal communication. This course will give students the skills they need for team communication, difficult conversations, managing meetings, and creating effective business messages.

Students will demonstrate an understanding of health care delivery systems. They will analyze the organization of health care delivery in hospitals, mental health and ambulatory care centers, home health agencies, and nursing homes. Students will have hands-on experience with the UBO4. Emphasis is placed on hospital inpatient billing.

The externship will provide students with coding practices in a hospital, physician’s office, clinic or other health care setting with directed projects common to a clinical coding specialist on the job. Students will practice with clinical code assignments and billing methodologies, including projects and cases that replicate typical coding tasks in a physician’s office, hospital outpatient clinic, ambulatory surgery, and hospital acute care settings that employ coding professionals. This practicum will focus on building speed and accuracy using actual medical records. If the student does not obtain an externship, completion of a capstone project is required.