4 courses with the subject MBC, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
MBC 100DE Introduction to Healthcare
90 Hours / 6 Quarter Credits Course Description: This course will focus on the healthcare environment, the healthcare team and healthcare delivery systems in the United States. The course will also include an overview of the healthcare industry and trends. Students will learn about the roles and responsibilities for the healthcare provider, billers and coders, and the role and impact of health insurance carriers. The students will explore the scope and practice, types of providers, reimbursement, premiums, de- ductibles, co-payments, and first, second, and third parties. The course will also provide information on the Affordable Care Act and other government policies that impact the healthcare industry. In addition, HIPAA, fraud and abuse will also be discussed. Credentials and salaries for billers and coders will also be addressed in this course.
90 Hours / 6 Quarter Credits Course Description: The purpose of this course is to provide the student with the basic principles of the ICD-10-CM Coding and Classification System, including the sequencing of codes and the impact on reimbursement. This course will allow students to use the ICD-10 CM Manual. The students will learn how to abstract information from scenarios in-order to code diagnoses. The students will use the format and guidelines from the ICD-10- CM manual and put into practice what they have learned. Prepa- ration through practice will prepare the students for certification
90 Hours / 6 Quarter Credits Course Description: This course is designed to introduce the student to coding and classification systems and nomenclatures, indexes, registers, and registries and to teach the basic princi- ples and use of each by using Current Procedures Terminology (CPT-4) and Healthcare Common Procedural Coding Systems (HCPCS). Student will acquire the ability to distinguish between CPT basic coding and HCPCS Level II codes. The student will practice assigning codes for procedures in this course using case scenarios and simulation educational activities.
