Healthcare Office Administration (A.O.S)

The 61-credit Healthcare Office Administration degree program offers a comprehensive, learning curriculum, emphasizing sophisticated administrative and high-level technological skills to meet the demands of the current and emerging health care system.

The program combines real-world business skills with specific knowledge of today's expanding field of healthcare administration. Students learn to identify key ethical, theoretical, and practical issues related to medical records.They learn how to perform essential clerical and organizational tasks within a healthcare office. Discussion of ethical,legislative, and regulatory issues relative to the day-to-day operations of a medical or health care office is also included in this up-to-date, real-world curriculum.

An essential element of the program is learning to use computers and a variety of software applications. Students also acquire the basics in medical terminology, anatomy and physiology, financial administration, business communications, and reimbursement methodologies.

An externship offered in the last semester provides students with the opportunity to supplement course work with practical work experience related to their program and occupational objectives. The healthcare field offers a variety of interesting and challenging opportunities to graduates of the Healthcare office administration program.Graduates can find employment in positions such as administrative assistants, executive assistants, front desk coordinator, human resources assistant, medical office assistant, records management supervisor, medical transcriptions, and medical coding and billing professional that are found in medical offices, hospitals, clinics, home health agencies, and insurance companies.

The Healthcare Office Administration degree program requires the successful completion of 61 semester credits hours for graduation.

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