Medical Office Technology

The student will study and demonstrate the use of medical word stems, suffixes, and prefixes as related to the body systems and associated diseases. Proficiency in the pronunciation, spelling, and definitions of medical terms, the use of the medical dictionary and related reference materials will be emphasized.

This course is a continuation of OT 113.

Emphasis will be placed on speedbuilding, along with practice on the numeric keypad.This course will also include an introduction to formatting letters, reports, and tables using Microsoft Word.

This course is designed to give students a basic introduction to coding in medical offices.

This course is designed to familiarize students with the capabilities of an Electronic Health Records program. Students will use a computer program to maintain patient files, schedule appointments, store treatment information, enter diagnosis with procedures to locate medical codes for billing, and submit claims to an insurance company.

This continuation course deals with Intermediate principles of coding using both ICD-10-CM AND CPT-4, focus is based on physicians office and outpatient settings. Experience with coding of medical records as well as use of an encoder and the administrative aspects of coding will be emphasized.

This class is designed to prepare students to take a national certification exam for Medical Coding.

The student will be placed in a medical facility during their last semester under the direction of an agency supervisor and qualified faculty member. The student will have one required job placement and attend seminar classes to integrate classroom work with the internship.