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Feb 23, 2025
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OFFT 2030 - Medical Office: Insurance and Billing Credits: 3 Hours/Week: Lecture 3 Lab 0 Internship hours per week 0 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 with grades of C or higher 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:
- bill medical services for payment.
- complete a variety of medical insurance forms.
- define insurance and coding terminology.
- demonstrate the use of a computerized coding program.
- identify the hospital billing cycle and the insurance claim process.
- identify a new versus established patient, patient demographic information, insurance verification, and authorizations.
- identify insurance submission procedures.
- identify the various categories of insurance.
- identify diagnostic and procedural codes.
- interpret policies and procedures for the use of clinical data required in reimbursement and prospective payment systems (PPS) in healthcare delivery.
- apply accurate billing through documentation, coding, chargemaster, claims management, and bill reconciliation processes.
- apply established guidelines to comply with reimbursement and reporting requirements such as the National Correct Coding Initiative.
Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MnTC): Goals and Competencies None Competency Goals (MnTC Goals 1-6) None Theme Goals (MnTC Goals 7-10) None
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