Physicians, clinics, and hospitals entrust medical support staff with reimbursement responsibilities. In addition to medical reimbursement, coding is also used to track diseases and to evaluate the effectiveness of healthcare facilities.
Prerequisite Skills
Participants should have a basic level of keyboarding proficiency and the ability to use a computer to create documents. Individuals who can't type or who are unfamiliar with computers will need to gain those skills before participating in this training program.
Medical Coding Certificate of Completion Curriculum
Medical Terminology 3 credits Medical Disorders 3 credits Medical Coding I - CPT 2 credits Medical Coding II - ICD - 9 2 credits Practical Applications in Coding I 2 credits Practical Applications in Coding II 2 credits *These courses are taught online and also at both the Bottineau and Minot campuses.
Program Description
The training program is comprised of 6 classes selected specifically to build coding skills.
The Medical Terminology and the Medical Disorders classes build knowledge of the medical language. The Medical Coding-CPT and Medical Coding-ICD-9 classes develop an understanding of the system of code numbers that represent each procedure, service, disease, disorder, or injury. The Practical Applications I and Practical Applications II classes provide hands-on application of coding techniques.
All 6 classes in the curriculum are available to students via distance delivery through online classes. Classes are taken one at a time following the prerequisite guidelines for each class. Students can, however, start the next class in the program immediately after satisfactory completion of the class in which they are currently enrolled.
Costs
The following is an overview of the program related costs.
* Non-refundable application fee * Tuition (currently $175/credit) * Books (contact the Bookcellar for current prices and shipping costs)
