Advanced Medical Coding Specialist and Auditing
Course Overview
The Advanced Medical Coding and Auditing Program at Medical Training Institute of New York is designed to prepare students for careers in a variety of healthcare settings, including medical offices, hospitals, clinics, and skilled-care facilities.
This course focuses on application of coding principles learned in CPT/ICD coding. In this course, the student codes source documents that he or she can expect to encounter on the job. The student will analyze and synthesize source documents and apply ICD-10-CM, CPT, and HCPCS codes based on documentation.
Advanced Medical Coding and Auditing requires the student to apply previously learned coding in CPT, HCPCS, and ICD-10-CM concepts to a wide array of medical reports. The student is presented with more in-depth coding information on a topic, such as coding pacemaker implantation, and then the student applies the knowledge by assigning CPT, HCPCS, and ICD-10-CM codes to the services and procedures from an original source document. The student uses an audit form and assigns the correct level of E/M services based on documentation.
Advanced Medical Coding and Auditing, presents the student with coding practice that simulates the type and complexity of reports the student will encounter on the job.
Auditing Review reports are available for each chapter on Evolve. The reports simulate the type of auditing tool the student will need on the job.
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Competency-Based Instruction
Competency-based instruction focuses on the mastery of skills that will be used as part of a professional coding practice.
Competency-Based Instruction will:
- Focus on student learning and performance rather than on instruction, teaching techniques, textbooks, and instructor activity.
- Emphasize student mastery of skills, habits, and attitudes that represent actual job requirements and situations.
- Give students opportunities to problem-solve and apply information and skills.
- Require students to demonstrate knowledge and skills in ways that are observable to both themselves and instructors.
- Shift the focus of the traditional classroom from teacher performance to student performance, from teaching to learning, from instructors presenting to students presenting, and from instructors teaching to instructors guiding students as they teach themselves.
- Present program content that is based on actual workplace application of the material being covered. This requires an integrated education structure in which all material, theory, ethics, practical application, and so forth are interrelated instead of taught as separate ideas.
- Require the active involvement of students in the learning process instead of only passive
Competency-Based Lessons:
- Are built on actual career expectations and applications.
- Include performance activities as early in the program as possible.
- Require students to think and perform like actual coding professionals.
- Provide students with opportunities to create, problem-solve, and develop solutions.
- Teach students how to monitor and evaluate their own performance instead of relying only on instructor evaluations.
- Provide an opportunity for students to be active participants during classroom time.
- Minimize instructor lectures and maximize student study groups, small-group work in the classroom, individual or group presentations, and projects.
- Emphasize hands-on practical application of the material.
Competencies for the Professional Practice of Medical Coding
In general, the competencies required for a successful practice of medical coding fall into four areas:
- Service coding with CPT and HCPCS
- Diagnosis coding with ICD-10-CM
- Reimbursement issues
- Application of terminology, anatomy, physiology, and pathophysiology skills Service coding involves the facts, concepts, and theories presented in the textbook about the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) and application of the service codes and modifiers.
Diagnosis coding uses the ICD-10-CM to report the diagnosis for which the patient received services.
Admission Requirement: GED/High School DiplomaWHAT YOU'LL LEARN
The students will apply CPT, HCPCS, and ICD-10-CM codes to a wide variety of subspecialty areas:
- Evaluation and Management Services
- Medicine
- Radiology
- Pathology and Laboratory
- Integumentary System
- Cardiovascular System
- Digestive System, Hemic/Lymphatic System, and Mediastinum/Diaphragm
- Musculoskeletal System
- Respiratory System
- Urinary, Male Genital, and Endocrine Systems
- Female Genital System and Maternity Care/Delivery
- Nervous System
- Eye and Auditory Systems
- Anesthesia
WHO WILL BENEFIT
Those Considering Coding and Auditing
Coding is a great career choice for anyone who wants to be in a non-patient-facing position within the healthcare industry. It also offers the benefits of working from home and having a very flexible schedule
Coders can work in various settings including hospitals. outpatient clinics, urgent care facilities, nursing homes, treatment centers, physician offices, and insurance companies. There are also multiple outsourcing agencies that employ coders to work remotely for a variety of clients.
Aspiring Medical Professionals
Working as a Coder gives many of us our first taste of working in the medical field. You might gain inspiration to continue that career path and get a more in-depth understanding of the medical world. It's okay to share this desire with your interviewer. It shows your dedication to the field and a willingness to learn
Job Stability
The demand for medical coders is growing. In fact, the Bureau of Labor Statistics expects this field to grow by 22% through 2026, About 34,300 openings for medical records and medical coding specialists are projected each year, on average, over the decade. Many of those openings are expected to result from the need to replace workers who transfer to different occupations or exit the labor force, such as to retire
Total Program Cost
| Program | Advanced Medical Coding and Auditing Specialist |
| Hours | 770 |
| Registration Fee | $100 |
| Tuition | $5,700 |
| Technology Fees | $700 |
| Clinical Lab Fee | $500 |
| Total Program Cost | $7,000 |
Fees:
Registration Fee
A non-refundable Registration Fee of $100 was due during registration to reserve a seat.
Clinical/Lab Fee
Clinical/Lab Fee is used to cover the cost of Liability insurance policy and student lab operations and to provide students with Liability Insurance at clinical rotation internship sites.
Technology Fees:
Technology Fee provides students with Online Learning Resources, the learning management system, and the student portal.
Books:
Students are required to purchase all textbooks on their own. Textbook costs are estimated at $700.00. Required books can be purchased from the school bookstore or online at portal.mtiofnewyork.com/stores
Uniform
Students are required to purchase MTI logo scrubs on their own. MTI logo scrubs can be purchased from the school bookstore or online at portal.mtiofnewyork.com/stores.
Tuition:
Advanced Medical Coding & Auditing Specialist is $1,910 for each of the program's three (3) quarters, and a total of $7,000.00 for the entire program, with tuition payments due as follows:
| Quarter | Cost |
| Prior to Quarter 1 & 2 | $5,333 |
| Prior to Quarter 3 & 4 | $2,667 |