Certified Electronic Health Records Specialist Expert

Hours: 455 / Access Length: 12 Months / Delivery: Online, Self-Paced
Retail Price: $2,799.00

Course Overview:

It is so important for students entering the workforce to be well prepared for the challenges found there. For those students hoping for a career in health care, it is imperative that they have an understanding of electronic health records and how those records impact patient care and reimbursement.  This course will provide provide the instructional tools needed to facilitate student learning of the electronic health record process.  Administrative, clinical, and billing applications are discussed, as well as real-world situations that the students will encounter in the workforce. 

With the Medical Billing Career Prep program, you will gain the skills you need to enter one of the fastest-growing fields in allied health as a medical billing specialist. In this program, you will gain hands-on, practical experience working with the main coding manuals in the field, the ICD-10-CM and the CPT. In addition; you will be introduced to ICD-10-CM. You will also master the legal, ethical, and regulatory concepts that are central to this field. Upon completion of this program, you will be ready to begin your career in an entry-level position.   Students will also be prepared to take the Certified Billing and Coding Specialist (CBCS) national certification exam offered by National Healthcareer Association (NHA).

About This Course:

We are committed to offering world class interactive online courses that provide training and learning support for the student in a number of ways during their experience. This course structure has been developed to provide activities to guide students throughout the entire process of learning. Learning activities include hands-on assignments that allow students to use what they are learning to allow better transferable skills within their work environments.

When a student learns, they are not alone.   Each student will be supported by our student services department – which ranges from course mentors, registrar, and technical support assistance.   Every month students have a progress report run on them every month by our student services department to ensure they are making satisfactory progress.   If a student falls behind, we reach out to them personally by phone call every month to see if there is anything we can do to continue to assist them with moving forward in their course.

This course prepares the student to take the National Healthcareer Association Electronic Health Record Specialist (CEHRS) and the National Healthcareer Association Certified Billing and Coding Specialist (CBCS).

Certified Electronic Health Records Specialist Career Prep

• Lesson 1: Introduction to Electronic Health Records
• Lesson 2: Overview of SimChart for the Medical Office
• Lesson 3: Privacy, Confidentiality, and Security
• Lesson 4: Administrative Use of the Electronic Health Record Patient Letter
• Lesson 5: Clinical Use of the Electronic Health Record
• Lesson 6: Using the Electronic Health Record for Reimbursement
• Lesson 7: The Personal Health Record and Patient Portals

Medical Billing Career Prep

• Lesson 1: Role of the Insurance Billing Specialist
• Lesson 2: Compliance, Privacy, Fraud and Abuse in Insurance Billing
• Lesson 3: Basics of Health Insurance
• Lesson 4: Medical Documentation and the Electronic Health Record
• Lesson 5: Diagnostic Coding
• Lesson 6: Procedural Coding
• Lesson 7: The Paper Claim CMS-1500 (02-12)
• Lesson 8: The Electronic Claim
• Lesson 9: Receiving Payments and Insurance Problem Solving
• Lesson 10: Office and Insurance Collection Strategies
• Lesson 11: The Blue Plans, Private Insurance, and Managed Care Plans
• Lesson 12: Medicare
• Lesson 13: Medicaid and Other State Programs
• Lesson 14: TRICARE and Veteran's Health Care
• Lesson 15: Worker's Compensation
• Lesson 16: Disability Income Insurance and Disability Benefit Programs
• Lesson 17: Hospital Billing
• Lesson 18: Seeking a Job and Attaining Professional Advancement

All necessary course materials are included.

Certification(s):

This course prepares the student to take the National Healthcareer Association Electronic Health Record Specialist (CEHRS) and the National Healthcareer Association Certified Billing and Coding Specialist (CBCS) certification exams.

System Requirements:

Internet Connectivity Requirements:

• Cable, Fiber, DSL, or LEO Satellite (i.e. Starlink) internet with speeds of at least 10mb/sec download and 5mb/sec upload are recommended for the best experience.

NOTE: While cellular hotspots may allow access to our courses, users may experience connectivity issues by trying to access our learning management system.  This is due to the potential high download and upload latency of cellular connections.   Therefore, it is not recommended that students use a cellular hotspot as their primary way of accessing their courses.

Hardware Requirements:

• CPU: 1 GHz or higher
• RAM: 4 GB or higher
• Resolution: 1280 x 720 or higher.  1920x1080 resolution is recommended for the best experience.
• Speakers / Headphones
• Microphone for Webinar or Live Online sessions.

Operating System Requirements:

• Windows 7 or higher.
• Mac OSX 10 or higher.
• Latest Chrome OS
• Latest Linux Distributions
  

NOTE: While we understand that our courses can be viewed on Android and iPhone devices, we do not recommend the use of these devices for our courses. The size of these devices do not provide a good learning environment for students taking online or live online based courses.

Web Browser Requirements:

• Latest Google Chrome is recommended for the best experience.
• Latest Mozilla FireFox
• Latest Microsoft Edge
• Latest Apple Safari

Basic Software Requirements (These are recommendations of software to use):

• Office suite software (Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, or LibreOffice)
• PDF reader program (Adobe Reader, FoxIt)
• Courses may require other software that is described in the above course outline.