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  • HIM 228: Healthcare Data Content & Delivery Systems

    3.00 Credits
    Luzerne County Community College

    This course introduces students to the contents, use and structure of the health record, including data and data sets. It explains how these components relate to primary and secondary record systems and gives an overview of the legal and ethical issues applicable to health information. Students are introduced to the organization, financing and delivery of health care services and the organization and activities of hospitals, nursing homes, mental health and ambulatory care centers, home health agencies, and hospices.
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  • HIM 233: Electronic Health Records (EHR)

    3.00 Credits
    Luzerne County Community College

    This course is a continuation of HIM 133 Medical Office Procedures. It continues to prepare the student to perform administrative healthcare functions. Students will use practice management software. Students will learn to input patient information and perform a variety of billing functions. Topics covered include Administrative Procedures, Telephone Techniques, Patient Scheduling, Medical Records Management, Written Communication, Managing Finances, Office Management, Human Resource Management, Employment Strategies, and Computerized Practice Management Software.
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  • HIM 234: Editing and Scribing

    3.00 Credits
    Luzerne County Community College

    Transcriptions from transcribing machines covering histories, physicals, operative procedures, autopsies, lab reports and letters from specialists. X-ray reports, manuscripts for doctors' publications and other materials are included.
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  • HIM 238: CPT Coding Insurance Billing

    3.00 Credits
    Luzerne County Community College

    This course will introduce the student to the support function of accounting and patient billing aspects of a medical practice. This course emphasizes practice in the assignment of valid Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes in an ambulatory care setting. Topics covered are evaluation and management services, anesthesia services and modifiers, the integumentary system, the musculoskeletal system, the respiratory system, the cardiovascular system, female genital and maternity care and delivery, general surgery, radiology, pathology, laboratory, the medicine section and Level II national codes, as well as third party reimbursement issues.
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  • HIM 239: ICD-CM/PCS Coding

    3.00 Credits
    Luzerne County Community College

    This course will introduce the student to the International Classification of Disease 10th edition that will be mandatory for Medicare and Medicaid Insurance claim processing as of 10/1/2014 for reimbursement purposes. This course emphasizes practice in the assignment of valid diagnostic codes (ICD-10-CM). It also introduces students to procedure codes (ICD-10-PCS).
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  • HIM 240: Advanced ICD-CM & CPT Coding

    3.00 Credits
    Luzerne County Community College

    This course focuses on mastering the essentials of advanced medical coding services. Advanced Medical Coding utilizes higher level, more complex examples (case studies, records and scenarios). It also provides cases which are actual medical records (with personal patient details changed or removed), providing real-world experience coding from physical documentation with advanced material.
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  • HIM 290: Medical Certification Review

    1.00 Credits
    Luzerne County Community College

    This course is designed to prepare the students for the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) Certified Coding Associate (CCA) examination that is offered through AHIMA. Upon completion of this course, students are eligible to sit for the CCA.
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  • HIM 299: Healthcare Internship

    3.00 Credits
    Luzerne County Community College

    Students will acquire an internship (service experience) related to their major or career goal to gain experience in a healthcare position. The internship will involve a student working in a professional setting under the supervision of an employer. The purpose of the internship is to facilitate student learning opportunities outside the classroom which will serve to enhance the students' education with hands-on experience with "real world" situations.
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  • HIS 101: Western Civilization I

    3.00 Credits
    Luzerne County Community College

    This course is a survey of the main stages of the history of western civilization up to the beginning of the 17th century. It emphasizes the concepts, forces, ideas, events and people that shaped the complex dimensions of the contemporary world. After a brief consideration of the earliest civilization phase, the course explores the classical period, from about 1000 B.C.E. to 500 C.E., the spread of civilization period, 500-1400 C.E., and the spread of the Renaissance and Reformation.
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  • HIS 102: Western Civilization II

    3.00 Credits
    Luzerne County Community College

    This course is a continuation of Western Civilization I beginning with the 18th century. It, too, emphasizes the concepts, ideas, events and people that shaped the complex dimensions of the contemporary world. It begins with a consideration of the forces influencing the West's dominance of the globe between the 17th century and 20th century. It concludes with analysis of the 20th century as each major civilization confronts the forces of modernity.
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