Medical Office Management

Provides an overview of the principles of law as applied to health care. The course gives consideration to the importance of medical records as legal documents, to the legal aspects of health care organizations, to the release of information, and to consents and authorizations.

Develops a working knowledge of general code matching and diagnosis assignments used in hospitals, clinics, and insurance offices for health-care industry. Emphasis is placed on purpose of coding, definitions of key terms, accurate application of coding principles and an overview of the impact of prospective reimbursement on the function of coding; principles of classification. Familiarization with standard coding references is provided (CPT,  ICD-10).

This course is designed to develop a basic knowledge of how to apply the coding rules to bill for patient services. In addition, a variety of payment systems will be presented – DRG, APC, and RUGS.