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Medical Insurance and Coding Specialist This course serves as an introduction to current medical software applications. Students will gain workplace/office skills, emphasis is placed on medical accounting records, patient scheduling, patient billing, and maintaining health records on the computer. Students will learn about medical coding guidelines and principles in order to verify the diagnosis and procedure codes used to report patients' conditions on insurance claims and encounter forms. Students will gain a fundamental understanding of current diagnostic and procedural coding. Students will learn the procedures used to file electronic insurance claims, as well as CMS -1500 paper form claims and its use to file claims. Students will learn about claim adjudication, reimbursement, follow-up, and record retention. Students will gain a fundamental understanding of claim requirements of health care payers such as Medicare, Medicaid, TRICARE and CHAMPVA, Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Workers compensation and disability
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