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• EHR 210: Legal and Ethical Issues in Healthcare

  3.00 Credits

  Reading Area Community College

  
  This course is designed for students who will work in the healthcare industry, both in medical offices, and in nursing and technical positions in hospitals, clinics, and nursing homes. The course also targets students in the Medical Coding and Billing as well as Medical Office/Health Records Specialist programs. Topics include professional and career responsibilities, healthcare laws awareness, and ethical decision-making and legal responsibilities of a healthcare worker. Prerequisite:    Take 1 group (Take COM-098; Minimum grade D /Take EAP-050 EAP-060; Minimum grade D /Take COM-121 or COM-122; Minimum grade D). (Required, Previous).
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• EHR 211: Medical Coding: CPT and HCPCS Coding Systems

  3.00 Credits

  Reading Area Community College

  
  This course is a sequential course in medical coding designed for students to build upon foundations of medical coding principles. Topics include Health Care Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) and Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) Coding Systems for Evaluation and Management, Surgery, Anesthesia, Radiology, Pathology and Laboratory, and Medicine. Prerequisite:    Take EHR-130; Minimum grade D. (Required, Previous).
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• EHR 220: Medical Billing and Reimbursement

  3.00 Credits

  Reading Area Community College

  
  This course provides students with information about major insurance programs, federal healthcare legislation, and medical claims. Students will also gain a knowledge of physician and hospital medical billing and government medical reimbursement methodology. Topics include: procedure coding systems. Topics include: understanding insurance plans; physician medical bulling, and government medical billing(Medicare, Medicaid, Tricare); benefits and payment adjudication, refunds, follow-ups, and appeals; and workers' compensation. Prerequisite:    Take MAT-020 MAT-030 MAT-035 MAT-150 MAT-160 MAT-165 MAT-180 MAT-210 MAT-220 or MAT-221; Minimum grade D. (Required, Previous). | Take EHR-100; Minimum grade D. (Required, Previous or concurrent).
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• EHR 250: Capstone Course: Preparation for the Medical Coding Certification Exam

  3.00 Credits

  Reading Area Community College

  
  This course is a capstone course designed to prepare the student to sit for the AAPC or AHIMA medical coding certification exams. Prerequisite:    Take EHR-130; Minimum grade D. (Required, Previous). | Take EHR-211; Minimum grade D. (Required, Previous). | Take EHR-220; Minimum grade D. (Required, Previous).
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• ENG 125: Introduction to Literature

  3.00 Credits

  Reading Area Community College

  
  This course introduces students of all majors to the three genres of imaginative literature--fiction, poetry, and drama--emphasizing the elements and techniques of literary analysis and the relationship between form and content. The readings and assignments not only require formal analysis of texts but encourage an appreciation of literature as a meaningful reflection of the human experience. Prerequisite:    Take COM-121; Minimum grade C. (Required, Previous).
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• ENG 126: Introduction to Literature (Honors)

  3.00 Credits

  Reading Area Community College

  
  Introduction to Literature (Honors) involves students in a guided exploration of literature through the understanding and application of various critical theories. Invitied to read, discuss, analyze, interpret, research, and write about fiction, poetry, and drama from the perspectives of a number of theoretical approaches, students will develop the ability to recognize assumptions underlying certain literary theories, understand their aims and implications, and apply their methods of analysis to literature. Students will also practice a variety of researching and writing stategies that evolve from the various theoretical perspectives. Prerequisite:    Take COM-121; Minimum grade C. (Required, Previous).
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• ENG 231: World Literature I

  3.00 Credits

  Reading Area Community College

  
  Selected works from ancient times to the seventeenth century are examined to show the development of humanity and the development and characteristics of the major literary genres. Prerequisite:    Take COM-121; Minimum grade D. (Required, Previous).
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• ENG 235: World Literature II

  3.00 Credits

  Reading Area Community College

  
  Selected works from the sixteenth century to the present are examined to show the changing forms of literature including revision of genre characteristics and the emergence of new themes, conflicts, and values. Prerequisite:    Take COM-121; Minimum grade D. (Required, Previous).
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• ENG 241: American Literature I

  3.00 Credits

  Reading Area Community College

  
  Representative works of selected major American writers from the Colonial, Revolutionary, and Romantic periods are examined from a literary perspective. Changing cultural, political, economic, and philosophical ideas in America from 1650 to 1865 which form the context for its Colonial, Revolutionary, and Romantic literatures are also presented and discussed. Finally, relationships between American literature and culture from these three earlier periods and American literature today are explored. Prerequisite:    Take COM-121; Minimum grade D. (Required, Previous).
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• ENG 245: American Literature II

  3.00 Credits

  Reading Area Community College

  
  The works of major American writers of the late nineteenth and the twentieth centuries are examined. The changing cultural and philosophic ideas represented in the literature are discussed. Prerequisite:    Take COM-121; Minimum grade D. (Required, Previous).
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