Medical Coding and Billing Specialist

Course Code: MCBS

This course provide the student with the necessary knowledge to perform administrative functions using software program. The student will enter information on a new patient, assign a chart number to a patient, enter information on an accident or illness, locate and charge information on an established patient, delete records on a patient who is not longer seeing the doctor.

Medical Insurance Coding & Billing Specialists: work in the hospitals, doctors’ and insurance companies’ offices. They analyze patient records to determine legitimacy of admission, treatment and length of stay in the health-care facility, and verify that the patient’s costs are covered by either a government agency or a medical insurance company. Medical Insurance Billing Specialists create fee schedules for patients who cannot afford to pay the bill right away and keep track of those schedules until the amount due is paid.

A medical billing and coding specialist is responsible for accurately recording and processing data about patients, such as treatment records, insurance information, bills, and received payments. He or she codes a patient’s diagnosis and requests payments from the insurance company or directly from the individual. A medical billing and coding specialist may work in a hospital, doctor’s office, physical or mental rehabilitation facility, or other health care institution.