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Did You Know...Medical Administrative Assistant with Insurance and Coding Emphasis teaches you skills that you will use on a daily basis in your new job. Some of these skills are:

Medical Terminology - The correct pronunciation and spelling of medical terms, learning the meaning of medical terms, and recognizing abbreviations used in medical terminology.

Medical Ethics - Principle of medical ethics established by the American Medical Association, discussing patien's rights in receiving medical care, learning procedures for maintaining confidentiality of patient records, and discussing the physician-patient relationship.

HIPPA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996) - Gain an understanding of the impact on individuals and health care providers and learn the appropriate means of compliance and consequences of non-compliance.

Medical Office Procedures - Learning the importance of administrative support in today's medical office, practicing proper behavior when interacting with patients, creating and maintaining patient records, composing well-organized medical correspondence, maintaining financial records in a medical office and discussing the employee's role in processing insurance claims.

Electronic Health Records - Learn the computerized patient and insurer billing practices including the use of International Classification of Diseases codes, filing electronic claims, applying basic insurance information common to all insurance carriers and transferring simple, moderate, and complex case histories onto insurance forms.

Into to Medical Coding - Learning the purpose of the CPT (Current Procedural Terminology) manual and the importance of using the current-year edition, understand and apply rules of coding fractures, defining principal diagnosis, and differentiating between codes based on surgical approach.

Intro to Medical Insurance - Familiarizing yourself with managed care contracts between physicians and insurance carriers that may affect insurance reimbursements, learn the benefits and eligibility of federally-funded medical health care, developing a plan to collect payments when problems arise with provider/subscriber, applying legal considerations when completing medical insurance forms, and applying specific problem-solving techniques when insurance companies deny a claim.