The Medical Records Technician Program is designed to prepare the student for entry-level employment in a medical, dental or hospital office setting. This program emphasizes medical office skills. Medical Transcriptionists are medical language specialists who interpret and transcribe dictation by physicians, physician’s assistants and nurse practitioners. They are self-disciplined and detail-oriented, working well under pressure and with time constraints, and exhibit ethical behavior.
• Medical Terminology
• Anatomy & Physiology
• CPT Coding
• ICD-9 Coding
• Medical Transcription
• Medical Office Ethics• Business English
• Basic Math
• Basic Accounting
• Keyboarding
• Telephone Techniques
• File Management
• Windows 2000/XP
• Word 2000/XP
• Excel 2000/CP
• Office Machines
• Medi-Soft
• Medical Office Procedures
Length: 648 hours (entire program)
Cost: $1944.00 per person
Prerequisite: GED/H.S. Diploma
Texts Required: $865
Consumable Supplies: $10
Courses will be held in daytime and evening.
Business English (Return
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Everyone who writes business e-mails, letters, reports or memos and wants
to improve his or her writing skills will benefit from this course.
You’ll not only learn proven business writing skills – you’ll
have the time to practice them to perfection!
Length: 24 hours
Cost: $72.00
Prerequisite: None
Text Required: No
Business Math (Return
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Sharpen your math skills and realize at last what your math teachers
were telling you. Apply basic math principles to medical office procedures.
Length: 24 hours
Cost: $72.00
Prerequisite: None
Text Required: No
Basic Accounting (Return
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Participants will receive a thorough background in basic accounting
procedures used to operate a medical office. Procedures include recording
business
transactions, completion of the accounting cycle, payroll, accounts
payable/receivable and creating financial statements. Participants
are required to bring
a calculator. This course is not computerized.
Length: 45 hours
Cost: $135.00
Prerequisite: None
Text Required: The Accounting Game: Basic Accounting Fresh From the Lemonade
Stand $15
Keyboarding (Return
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You will have the opportunity to build keyboarding skills by improving
finger strengths and memorization of finger keys with a self-paced
typing tutorial. Great for the beginner or for the typist who wants
to improve his/her speed.
Length: 12 hours
Cost: $36.00
Prerequisite: None
Text Required: Medical Keyboarding $70
Telephone Techniques (Return
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You will learn how to become a better communicator, find out if the messages
you’re sending are the ones you really want to send. Learn how
to handle incoming calls; how to avoid phrases that deter customer
service; how to listen for accuracy; how to handle the irate caller;
how to deal with foreign accents and how to avoid voice mail mistakes.
Length: 24 hours
Cost: $72.00
Prerequisite: None
Text Required: No
File Management (Return
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Feel like you’re drowning in a world of paper? This focused course
will help you create a record management system that will clear your
desk, keep you legal, and help you locate every important document you
own. The information covered in this course can benefit every office
worker.
Length: 18 hours
Cost: $54.00
Prerequisite: None
Text Required: File Management Manual $5
Office Machines (Return
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This course will provide instruction and practical experience using copiers,
printers, fax machines, recorder transcribers and calculators. Many
models and manufacturers will be used in order to provide the student
a wide variety of experiences.
Length: 18 hours
Cost: $54.00
Prerequisite: None
Text Required: Office Machines, A Practical Approach, $55
Medi-Soft (Return to Top)
In this course you will learn to input patient information, schedule
appointments, handle billing, produce medical office lists and reports,
and other tasks using the new and very popular Medisoft Patient Accounting
for Windows.
Length: 24 hours
Cost: $72.00
Prerequisite: Keyboarding Skills & Medical Office Procedures
Text Required: Glencoe Patient Billing: Using MediSoft Advanced, 4e $70
Windows 2000 (Return
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This course will lay the foundation for fundamental computing concepts
and terminology. You will examine and identify components of the Windows
screen; observe the contents of the hard drive; learn to use networked
drives; utilize Help, WordPad, Edit, Copy, Past, and Recycle Bin; and
practice organizing files by using Windows Explorer.
Length: 12 hours
Cost: $36.00
Prerequisite: Keyboarding Skills
Text Required: Windows 2000/ Introduction to Personal Computers $30
Word 2000/XP (Return
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This course will introduce the basic concepts of word processing; creating
and formatting documents, creating and using templates, mail merges,
macros and other advanced functions.
Length: 36 hours
Cost: $108.00
Prerequisite: Windows 2000
Text Required: Word 2000 Beginning, Intermediate, Advanced $45
Excel 2000/XP (Return
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This course will introduce you to electronic spreadsheets. You will learn
how to create worksheets, create charts and graphs and write formulas
for customized spreadsheets.
Length: 36 hours
Cost: $108.00
Prerequisite: Windows 2000
Text Required: Excel Worksheets, Charting & Organizing Data, Advanced
$45
Office XP (Return
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You need to know the new features available in office XP! You will get
a great peek at the tools and options used in Office XP. You will cover
Word, Excel and unique features in the operating system.
Length: 18 hours
Cost: $54.00
Prerequisite: Office 2000
Text Required: Windows XP, Word XP Beginning, Excel XP Beginning $45
Medical Office Procedures (Return
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This course is designed to prepare you to work in a medical office. Topics
to be covered include human relations, billing procedures, insurance
processes, taking and canceling appointments, business forms, business
correspondence and office design.
Length: 24 hours
Cost: $72.00
Prerequisite: None
Text Required: Medical Office Procedures, $70
Medical Terminology (Return
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If you are interested in a medical career, it’s time to learn medical
terminology. Course content includes prefixes, suffixes, root words and
combination forms for anatomical, diagnostic, surgical and procedural
terms.
Length: 48 hours
Cost: $144.00
Prerequisite: None
Text Required: Medical Terminology for Health Professions $60
Anatomy & Physiology (Return
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This course is a wonderful introduction to basic anatomy and physiology
and the major disorders of the human body. This course will give a
clear understanding of how our bodies function in health and disease
and help you associate terminology to the appropriate body part.
Length: 48 hours
Cost: $144.00
Prerequisite: Medical Terminology
Text Required: Essentials of Human Anatomy & Physiology $90
CPT Coding (Return
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Learn procedural coding for physician’s offices and out-patient
departments in hospitals. This important step in the billing process
requires accuracy in coding in order to optimize payment for the physician
and the hospital.
Length: 48 hours
Cost: $144.00
Prerequisite: Medical Terminology
Text Required: Principles of CPT Coding $60
ICD-9 Coding (Return
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Prepare to code in physicians’ offices, clinics or hospital settings.
Learn to correctly assign ICD-9 diagnostic and procedural codes in medical/health
records to ensure accurate and complete reimbursement from insurance.
Length: 69 hours
Cost: $207.00
Prerequisite: Medical Terminology
Text Required: ICD-9 CM $95
Medical Transcription I (Return
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Transcribe patient histories and physicals, physician’s notes and
other medical documents. You may work in a doctor’s office, a hospital
or lab, or out of your own home as a private contractor. This course
gives you the knowledge and skills necessary to begin a successful career
as a medical transcriptionist.
Length: 48 hours
Cost: $144.00
Prerequisite: Keyboarding Skills and Medical Terminology
Text Required: Medical Keyboarding & Transcription $55
Medical Transcription II (Return
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Further develop your transcription skills. Complete hospital and clinical
case studies.
Length: 48 hours
Cost: $144.00
Prerequisite: Medical Transcription I
Text Required: Use same text as Medical Transcription I
Medical Office Ethics (Return
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Uninformed office staff can leave a medical office open to litigation.
This course will educate the student in the legal risks involved in
medical practice. Legal concepts such as standard of care, scope of
employment, criminal vs. civil law, negligence, contracts and the legal
and ethical issues involving AIDS patients will be covered.
Length: 24 hours
Cost: $72.00
Prerequisite: Medical Office Procedures
Text Required: Law, Liability & Ethics for the Medical Office Professional
$55