Medical Assisting: Administrative Competencies

Catalog description

This course is focused on acquiring the knowledge necessary to perform medical assistant’s administrative duties. The content includes introduction to common equipment utilized to file and maintain medical records, and defines and outlines the security and safety measures employed when working with medical records. Identifies and compares active, inactive, and closed medical records and how to set up a medical record retention system for a medical office. Defines medical assisting as it relates to the health care profession, ethics, safety, and security in the medical office, cultural diversity, integrated administrative procedures, health insurance, medical coding, and billing. Relates the importance of the FDA and DEA to administrative procedures and summarizes the purpose of federal healthcare regulations: HCQIA, False Claims Act, OSHA, and HIPAA.