Medical Billing Specialist - Cuyahoga Community College

Medical Billing Specialist from Cuyahoga Community College is a Campus Certificate Health Administration degree that prepares you for a Healthcare career. The Medical Billing Specialist Certificate is a short term program established to prepare students for employment in physician's 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-9-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. This program is designed to prepare students to demonstrate the following program outcomes: 1. Utilize oral and written skills to effectively communicate and interact with healthcare professionals, colleagues, administration and customers to enhance satisfaction. 2. Develop effective interpersonal skills to conduct yourself professionally among clients, colleagues, and other healthcare professionals. 3. Conduct yourself ethically and professionally according to the AHIMA code of ethics and standards of practice. 4. Use a variety of techniques to problem solving and arrive at best outcome. 5. Apply regulatory and accreditation standards, to identify and support documentation compliance. 6. Apply hospital policies, federal regulations and/ or state statutes in the release and management of protected health information (PHI). 7. Ensure document compliance for services being billed. 8. Apply skills to find, build, research, manage and report both electronic and paper data. 9. Employ auditing skills and methodologies to insure compliance, accuracy, completeness, regulations, policies and procedures, and protocols in the healthcare delivery system. 10. Utilize knowledge and skills of medical terminology, codesets, reimbursement methodologies and regulations to accurately and thoroughly assign respective code sets. View more details on Cuyahoga Community College . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Health Administration courses.