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Medical Billing and Coding
- 16-month Associate of Occupational Studies Degree
The Medical Billing and Coding online degree** program can prepare you for success. It can provide you with a solid foundation in the critical skills needed in healthcare billing and coding practices.
Successful graduates will be ready to enter the healthcare field in billing and coding. They may work as either physician-based or in-patient coders. Our program provides you with technological competencies and interpersonal strategies. You will also gain a core understanding of the value and importance of correct billing and coding. Upon graduation, you should be prepared to take the AAPC for Apprentice-level certification (CPC-A).
Our online medical coding and billing courses prepare you to fill administrative or clerical positions.
You will study:
- Medical Terminology
- Anatomy and Physiology for Coders
- Medical Law and Billing
- Word Processing
- Business Communications
- Spreadsheets
- Insurance and Coding
- Advanced Billing and Coding
- Billing and Coding – Surgical and Lab
- Billing and Coding Practicum
This program will prepare you to enter the healthcare field in billing and coding. You will be ready for positions in a physician's office, and in surgical and lab facilities.
Objectives
Our online course in Medical Billing and Coding provides you with training essential to your success. Upon completion of this program, you should be able to:
- Demonstrate keyboarding, word processing and computer skills
- Understand and apply medical office organizational techniques
- Understand and perform insurance billing and coding using ICD-9, HCPCS and CPT for physician and health offices
- Function effectively in a medical setting
- Understand the ethics and HIPAA requirements and obligations in medical billing and coding
- Coordinate a successful job search
- Apply this certification as one year of experience toward the CPC requirements
- Communicate orally and in writing in a concise, clear manner
- Recognize and apply management, and human-relations skills and techniques
Graduates from this program may apply for employment opportunities in medical facilities. These types of facilities include hospitals, clinics, medical offices and health departments. You may also find work in health research firms, insurance companies and laboratories, health maintenance organizations (HMO) and medical billing and collection agencies.
Turn your interest in healthcare into a rewarding career. Train for your medical billing and coding career at PCI! Contact us today for more specifics about this program. You can also find out more about other programs that PCI offers, as well as financial aid.
Online Experience
Pinnacle Career Institute - Online designed its courses with busy adults like you in mind. We understand that you must balance the responsibilities of life with a desire to advance your career. Our convenient, flexible, online programs can help you achieve your career goals.
Delivery
Pinnacle Career Institute - Online programs are delivered year-round through our Learning Management System. The system is accessible through an Internet connection. Upon program enrollment, you will receive a unique identifier number which signs you into the classroom.
From this virtual classroom, you can:
- View and listen to lectures
- Participate in class forums and discussions
- Chat live with other students and instructors
- Complete classroom and lab assignments, tests, and quizzes
- Receive instructor review and assistance
Web-based tutorials are used for labs, lectures and tests.
Library Resources
Pinnacle Career Institute understands that students require library services to complete projects, study subjects further and succeed in college. To help provide research materials, PCI has partnered with Jones e-global library® to provide you with Web access to all the college library services you will need as you complete your studies.
Program offered at the following location(s):
- Pinnacle Career Institute located in South Kansas City
- Pinnacle Career Institute – North Kansas City*
- Pinnacle Career Institute located in Lawrence
- Pinnacle Career Institute – Online
*A branch campus of Pinnacle Career Institute
**PCI offers both Associate of Occupational Studies and Associate of Applied Science degrees