Emphasis is placed on the medical terminology using prefixes, suffixes, roots, and combining forms. Medical Terminology II 3 cr. Health Promotion 1401 or consent of department. Continues instruction in the basics of medical terminology, the root of all diagnostic and coding reporting. It also covers pharmacology, psychiatry, oncology, radiology, nuclear medicine, and radiation therapy.
Emphasis is placed on the medical terminology using prefixes, suffixes, roots, and combining forms.
Health Care Industry 3 cr. A survey of the American health care industry which includes managed care organizations, history, and present use of medical coding for reimbursement and health care tracking, health care insurance and other third-party payers, health care providers and current business, governmental influence over the health care industry, and office administration. Health Promotion 1401 or consent of department. Introduces the concepts of numeric classification of disease and trauma. Begins the instruction in diagnostic coding techniques utilized by all health care practitioners, reimbursement, and tracking administrators.