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Administrative Medical Assistant Program

The Administrative Medical Assistant program prepares students to work in a medical office, clinic, hospital, public health agency, or insurance setting.  Students receive advanced-level training in diagnostic and procedural coding, insurance billing, transcription, and medical accounting software use.

Graduates of the program may be hired as physician office managers, transcriptionists, insurance billers/coders, and receptionists.

Duties of a administrative medical assistant employee can include scheduling appointments and surgeries, preparing and maintaining medical records, ordering supplies, obtaining referral and surgery pre-authorizations, entering medical charges and remittances, preparing insurance billing, transcribing patient encounters, preparing financial reports, and even credits and collection procedures.

Employees in the administrative medical assistant field must be flexible and prepared to adapt to changes that occur in the health industry, such as procedural code revision or software and equ
ipment updates.


Degree Requirements
   Medical Biller/Coder Technical Certificate (1 year)
   Medical Receptionist Technical Certificate  (1 year)
   Medical Transcription Technical Certificate  (1 year)
   Administrative Medical Assistant Advanced Technical Certificate (2yr)
     Administrative Medical Assistant Associate of Applied Science
     (2 year includes core)

    Bachelor of Applied Science (4 year)

Program Instructor
    Rhona Alboucq
   

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