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Nov 23, 2024
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OFFT 2030 - Medical Office: Insurance and Billing Credits: 3 Hours/Week: Lecture None Lab None Course Description: This course introduces the student to insurance and billing procedures for the medical office. Topics include insurance requirements related to Medicare/Medicaid, managed care and other insurance policies, hospital/clinic billing procedures, auditing/compliance, and collection procedures. MnTC Goals None
Prerequisite(s): OFFT 2006 and OFFT 2010 Corequisite(s): None Recommendation: Ability to add, subtract, multiply, divide, and calculate simple percentages with the use of a calculator.
Major Content
- Basic human body systems
- Patient records and reference books
- Insurance claims
- Medical coding and claims
- Billing and payment process
Learning Outcomes At the end of this course students will be able to:
- code medical services for payment.
- complete a variety of medical insurance forms.
- define insurance and coding terminology
- demonstrate use of computerized coding program
- describe the insurance claim process.
- identify common roles and responsibilities in the medical insurance industry.
- identify human body systems
- identify insurance submission procedures.
- identify the various categories of insurance
- recognize procedural codes.
- apply policies and procedures for the use of clinical data required in reimbursement and prospective payment systems (PPS) in healthcare delivery.
- recognize procedural codes.
- support accurate billing through coding, chargemaster, claims management, and bill reconciliation processes.
- use established guidelines to comply with reimbursement and reporting requirements such as the National Correct Coding Initiative.
Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MnTC): Goals and Competencies Competency Goals (MnTC Goals 1-6) None Theme Goals (MnTC Goals 7-10) None
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