Medical Billing Career Prep Professional

MSM110 / Hours: 465 / Access Length: 12 Months / Delivery: Online, Self-Paced
Retail Price: $3,155.00 / Materials Included

Course Overview:

With the Medical Billing Career Prep program, you will gain the skills you need to enter one of the fastest-growing fields in allied health as a medical billing specialist. In this program, you will gain hands-on, practical experience working with the main coding manuals in the field, the ICD-10-CM and the CPT. In addition; you will be introduced to ICD-10-CM. You will also master the legal, ethical, and regulatory concepts that are central to this field. Upon completion of this program, you will be ready to begin your career in an entry-level position.   Students will also be prepared to take the Certified Billing and Coding Specialist (CBCS) national certification exam offered by National Healthcareer Association (NHA) or the Billing Coding Specialist certification exam offered by American Medical Certification Association.

Learn and recognize word roots, prefixes, and suffixes used in medical language today. Learn how to combine words to create meaningful medical conditions as well as comprehend their definition and know the correct spelling. In this medical terminology course you will learn medical terms related to all major body systems. Medical terms are introduced in the context of human anatomy and physiology to help you understand exactly what they mean. You will practice defining and understanding medical terms using case studies, vignettes, and activities.

About ProTrain:

ProTrain is committed to offering world class interactive online courses that provide training and learning support for the student in a number of ways during their experience. The ProTrain course structure has been developed to provide activities to guide students throughout the entire process of learning. Learning activities include hands-on assignments that allow students to use what they are learning to allow better transferable skills within their work environments; and collaborative assignments, like wikis and discussion groups that allow them to share what they have learned with others in the same course.

While a student learns, they are not alone. Each student will receive guidance and support from his or her assigned Training Assessment Manager (TAM) and Student Services Specialist (SSS) representative. In addition, we will offer live monthly webinars and feedback sessions for various subject categories. Throughout the entire course, students are monitored by the SSS representative using progress reporting from the ProTrain Registration System (PRS).

ProTrain will provide Students who successfully complete their online certification programs and pass their industry level certification exams the access to the new ProTrain Education-2-Employment Career Tracker system. The Career Tracker will allow our students who pass exams to load their own resumes at no additional cost, and letting industry employers find their talent through the same database.

Course Outline:

Medical Billing Career Prep

• Lesson 1: Role of the Insurance Billing Specialist
• Lesson 2: Compliance, Privacy, Fraud and Abuse in Insurance Billing
• Lesson 3: Basics of Health Insurance
• Lesson 4: Medical Documentation and the Electronic Health Record
• Lesson 5: Diagnostic Coding
• Lesson 6: Procedural Coding
• Lesson 7: The Paper Claim CMS-1500 (02-12)
• Lesson 8: The Electronic Claim
• Lesson 9: Receiving Payments and Insurance Problem Solving
• Lesson 10: Office and Insurance Collection Strategies
• Lesson 11: The Blue Plans, Private Insurance, and Managed Care Plans
• Lesson 12: Medicare
• Lesson 13: Medicaid and Other State Programs
• Lesson 14: TRICARE and Veteran's Health Care
• Lesson 15: Worker's Compensation
• Lesson 16: Disability Income Insurance and Disability Benefit Programs
• Lesson 17: Hospital Billing
• Lesson 18: Seeking a Job and Attaining Professional Advancement

Medical Terminology Career Prep

• Lesson 1: Introduction to Medical Terminology, The Human Body in Health and Disease, Word Part Review
• Lesson 2: Skeletal & Muscular System
• Lesson 3: Cardiovascular System
• Lesson 4: Lymphatic and Immune System
• Lesson 5: Respiratory System
• Lesson 6: Digestive System
• Lesson 7: Urinary System
• Lesson 8: Nervous System and Special Senses: Eyes and Ears
• Lesson 9: Integumentary System
• Lesson 10: Endocrine System
• Lesson 11: Reproductive System
• Lesson 12: Diagnostic Procedures, Nuclear Medicine, and Pharmacology

All necessary course materials are included.

Certification(s):

This course prepares students to take the Certified Billing and Coding Specialist (CBCS) national certification exam offered by National Healthcareer Association (NHA) or the Billing Coding Specialist certification exam offered by American Medical Certification Association.  The price of the course INCLUDES the price of ONE of the certification exams.

System Requirements:

Internet Connectivity Requirements:

• Cable, Fiber, DSL, or LEO Satellite (i.e. Starlink) internet with speeds of at least 10mb/sec download and 5mb/sec upload are recommended for the best experience.

NOTE: While cellular hotspots may allow access to our courses, users may experience connectivity issues by trying to access our learning management system.  This is due to the potential high download and upload latency of cellular connections.   Therefore, it is not recommended that students use a cellular hotspot as their primary way of accessing their courses.

Hardware Requirements:

• CPU: 1 GHz or higher
• RAM: 4 GB or higher
• Resolution: 1280 x 720 or higher.  1920x1080 resolution is recommended for the best experience.
• Speakers / Headphones
• Microphone for Webinar or Live Online sessions.

Operating System Requirements:

• Windows 7 or higher.
• Mac OSX 10 or higher.
• Latest Chrome OS
• Latest Linux Distributions
  

NOTE: While we understand that our courses can be viewed on Android and iPhone devices, we do not recommend the use of these devices for our courses. The size of these devices do not provide a good learning environment for students taking online or live online based courses.

Web Browser Requirements:

• Latest Google Chrome is recommended for the best experience.
• Latest Mozilla FireFox
• Latest Microsoft Edge
• Latest Apple Safari

Basic Software Requirements (These are recommendations of software to use):

• Office suite software (Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, or LibreOffice)
• PDF reader program (Adobe Reader, FoxIt)
• Courses may require other software that is described in the above course outline.