Instructor: Linda Rahmoller, Office hours, Tuesday through Friday: 1:15-2:00 p.m., and by appointment. E-mail address: lrahmoller@humphreys.edu.

Course Description: This course is designed to equip students with skills specific to a front office medical environment. The areas of study include scheduling appointments, insurance billing and coding, fee and charge payment maintenance, medical reports and recordkeeping, and medical record filing.

Hours of Instruction: Thursday, 6:15-9:45 p.m.

Method of Instruction: Lecture, demonstration, supervised research using reference materials, and laboratory time using the Medisoft for Windows program.

Course Objectives: Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to do patient billing, recordkeeping patient scheduling and insurance billing.

Course Content: This class will involve hands-on activities using software which a medical assistant could be using in a medical office. It utilizes research techniques which will equip the student to file accurate billing and insurance data.

1. Computers in the Medical Office, Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, 1999 ISBN#

0-02-801990-3

2. From Patient to Payment, 2^d Edition, Cynthia Newby, Glencoe McGraw-Hill, 1998, ISBN #0-02-801988-1

3. Two 3 1/2" disks.

Basis of Evaluation: The student will be graded on accurate coding and filing of insurance forms, production of accurate patient billing, midterm and final examinations, and completion of workbook exercises.

Attendance Policy: For each two (2) absences, the student's grade will be lowered by one grade level.