AHE 130 - Comprehensive Medical Billing Online

7.5 Continuing Education Units (CEU). This course is not for Credit(s).

This course is designed to enable the student to learn how to use medical billing software and work with healthcare providers, patients and insurance companies to ensure claims are processed and paid. Topics to be covered include basic medical coding, claims preparation and submission, insurance carriers, managed care, accounts receivable management, and electronic health records.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course the student will be able to:

1. demonstrate the ability to enter patient demographics, charges, and payments into medical billing software,
2. discuss various health insurance plans,
3. explain how to maximize reimbursement,
4. create and interpret reports generated by the billing software,
5. locate ICD, CPT and HCPCS code, and
6. discuss electronic health records.