Basic Of Health Insurance
 This course will familiarize the students with the knowledge of the overview of health insurance basic skill requirements, responsibility of the health insurance specialist. The student will know the difference between medical care and health care. Health care reimbursement is discussed along with Medicare and Medicaid health plans. 

Procedures/ Diagnostic coding
This course will teach the students the knowledge of basic coding definitions and how to apply those codes to medical documentation. Student will understand why modifiers are added to CPT codes and know the difference between new and an established patient. The students will know the difference between primary diagnosis and principle diagnosis along with knowing preventive care in ICD-9 codes. 

Health Insurance Claim Forms/ Billing
This part of the course will teach the student how to prepare a claim form manually and understand how to fill out different types of insurance forms for different types of insurance plans. Students will understand step-by-step how general billing guidelines are common to most carriers and understand why claims are accepted and some are not. The students will go through medisoft training for claim processing.

 Private Insurance and Managed Care System
 This part of the course will cover all the steps the student has learned and know how to fill-out commercial insurance claim forms for blue cross and blue shield, medicare, Medicaid, tricare, and worker compensation. The student will know how all these insurances plans are handled by processing insurance claim forms.

Career Development
The purpose of this course is to give the students techniques that will assist them in acquiring career level employment. The techniques taught are: interviewing skills, how to conduct a successful job search, discovering the hidden job market, preparing effective resumes and cover letters as well as hands-on preparation through mock interviews.

 

For start dates or other information, Call Admissions Cerritos (562) 916-5055

Admissions Satellite campus Gardena (310) 323-4000
 
Cerritos Campus Driving Direction
17215 Studebaker Road, Suite 310
Cerritos, California 90703

Gardena Campus Driving Direction
1225 west, 190th street, suite 105
Gardena, California 90248
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