12 courses with the subject HCM, 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.
HCM 130A&P FOR MEDICAL OFFICE3
Designed for students enrolled in medical administration; it acquaints students with basic information about all the body systems, common diseases and disorders of each body system. The course will first discuss the structure (anatomy) of the body system, how the individual parts work together when healthy (physiology), and then discuss the diseases that most often occur within the body system (pathophysiology). Prerequisite(s): BIO 107 or BIO 171 & 172
Designed for prospective medical billers/coders who handle insurance claims for health care facilities and insurance companies. Patient records and encounter forms are used to complete required insurance claim forms. The students will gain experience in identifying and correcting charge entry errors, as well as using up-to-date medical 2026-2027 Westmoreland County Community College Catalog coding.
INFORMATION 3-0-3 Familiarizes students with computerized account management and develops skills in using medical management software. Includes recordkeeping, controlling inventory, patient accounting, billing, insurance form preparation, appointment scheduling, payroll, word processing and database management.
HEALTH RECORD 3-0-3 This course introduces students to the functional knowledge about the Electronic Health Record (EHR): What it is, how it benefits the healthcare industry and workplace, what is required to implement it in the provider office and what its basic structural components are, and how its content is determined.
This course introduces students to complex legal, moral and ethical issues. Students use Law & Ethics for Healthcare as a guide to help resolve the many legal and ethical questions that they will be confronted with daily. Upon completion of this course, students will have a foundation of law and ethics, legal issues for healthcare professionals and also deal with social and interpersonal health care issues.
A coordinated period of 180 hours of supervised experience in agencies that will offer students an opportunity to perform a variety of procedures and develop technical competence in their area of specialization. Prerequisite(s): HCM 145, HCM 250 or HCM 260; QPA of 2.0 overall in program
This course is designed to advance topics in health care revenue cycle management and explore current issues impacting health care organizations’ reimbursement. The students will learn many processes, programs, organization and departments involved in managing healthcare revenue. The students critical thinking skills will be enhanced by looking at hospital measures of performance, clinical documentation integrity, physician queries, claims audits, denials and appeals alongside the pay-for-performance and other critical areas of the revenue cycle.
This course prepares students for medical coding positions by helping them to understand how to find the correct diagnosis codes using the International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revisions, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM). Students will learn to convert widely accepted uniform descriptions of medical, surgical and diagnostic services rendered by health care providers with numeric codes. Prerequisite(s): BIO 107 or BIO 171 and BIO 172
This course prepares students for medical coding positions by helping them to understand how to find the correct procedural codes using CPT (Current Procedural Terminology) and HCPCS. Students will learn to convert widely accepted uniform descriptions of medical, surgical and diagnostic services rendered by health care providers with five-digit numeric codes. Prerequisite(s): BIO 107 or BIO 171 and BIO 172
This course is a comprehensive look at the hospital and facility coding and billing. The student will have the opportunity to work with the 183 westmoreland.edu
This course provides extensive, hands-on abstract medical coding. The course will review methodologies for the abstracting of physician’s notes in many different specialties. The student will also have the opportunity to take a mock exam, which is developed from the CPC and CCS-P national exam. Prerequisite(s): HCM 145, HCM 250, HCM 260 and 20 credit hours of HCM courses.
This course provides virtual office experience for those completing the health care management associate degree. Students will gain valuable experience working strictly online from a home environment. Students will develop proper communication skills, time management, proper office etiquette, appropriate ethical and legal responsibilities with office staff and management by working with other classmates and the instructor of the course. Prerequisite(s): BIO 107 or BIO 171 and BIO 172, HCM 145, HCM 150, HCM 155, HCM 165, HCM 250, and HCM 260
