Online Certificate in Medical Billing and Coding for Health Care Professionals

***The Certificate in Medical Billing and Coding program is currently not accepting applications. Please check back for further updates.***

Drexel University’s online Certificate in Medical Billing and Coding for Health Care Professionals offers the opportunity for those with prior health care experience to prepare for medical billing and coding certification with an 18-credit plan of study designed with your expertise in mind. Whether you're looking to expand your career opportunities within health care or are working in a laboratory setting as a Histotechnologist or Pathologists’ Assistant, the skill sets learned in Drexel’s online Medical Billing and Coding program will prepare you to work with laboratory and hospital administrators to determine relevant workload statistics and assign, capture, and transmit relevant revenue statistics to hospital administrators and third-party payors.

Upon completion of the program, you'll have a basis understanding of medical billing, anatomy, software, and terminology, as well as physician and hospital-based medical coding. In addition, the Medical Billing and Coding skill set is a recognized asset that will allow you to create opportunities for advancement in your professional career.

Program Features

• Gain an understanding of the four main coding manuals - CPT, HCPCS, ICD-10-CM, and ICD-10-PCS
• Upon completing the program, you will be qualified to sit for the associated national certification exams, including the:
  • American Health Information Management Association
    Certified Coding Associate (CCA^®), Certified Coding Specialist (CCS^®), or Certified Coding Specialist Physician-Based (CCS-P^®) Board Exam - The CCS & CCS-P credentials
  • AAPC
    Certified Professional Coder (CPC^®), Certified Outpatient Coder (COC^TM) [formerly CPC-H^®], Certified Inpatient Coder (CIC^TM), or Certified Professional Medical Auditor (CPMA^®) Board Exam

What will I learn in this program?

Upon Graduation, you will be able to:

• Apply the principles of billing & coding in the CPT manual
• Complete the UM-04 form on documentation
• List and describe the purposes of the ICD-10-CM
• Assign ICD-10-CM codes to the highest level of specificity
• Apply the medical record chart requirements based on the review process
• Demonstrate knowledge of CPT section medical terminology
• Describe the basics of hospital regulations guiding medical billing & coding
• Apply the principles of billing and coding in their facility or within a professional practice
• Synthesize medical terminology and anatomy knowledge into billing and coding assignments

Questions? We're Here to Help!

Gina Yacovelli, DHSc, CCS, CCS-P, CPC, CPMA, CEMC, CPB
Director, Medical Billing and Coding Program
gy75@drexel.edu
 

This program is only available on a part-time basis.
State restrictions may apply to some programs.