:: Curriculum

CAY Medical Management Academy Curriculum

• Starting a Medical Billing Business (Setting Up, Naming Your Business)
• How To Write A Press Release and Business Plan
• Tools needed
• Overview of a doctor's office
• Organization of paper flow
• Overview of insurance billing
• Services that can be offered
• Billing terminology
• Forms for data entry
• HCFA 1500 claim form
• Electronic Media Claims
• Fees for Services - Per Claim, Flat Fee, Percentage
• Finding Doctors, Overcoming Objectives, Qualifying Prospects
• Sample letters, agreements and packets
• Introduction Into The Medical Billing Industry
• Legal Considerations
• Life Cycle of a paper claim
• Understanding an Explanation of Benefits
• CPT (Procedural Coding)
• Use of A Modifier
• Explanation of Benefits
• The Meaning of Return as Unprocessable, Unpaid Claims & Problem Resolution.
• Telephone Follow-up & Eligibility
• Glossary of Terms
• Transmitting Electronically
• Managed Care
• Modifiers
• Informal Open Forum on Billing Issues
• Software Training
• Setting up a practice
• Setting up patients
• Inputting patient data
• Inputting ICD-9 and CPT codes
• Setting up insurance carriers
• Performing transaction entry
• Creating claims
• Deposit entry
• Posting payments
• Reading reports
• Printing a HCFA
• Resubmission of a claim
• Setting up multiple practices
• Formatting custom reports
• And much, much more ...

The Academy of Medical Billing is your complete online resource for medical billing. If you are looking for a medical billing course, medical billing training, a medical billing class, or medical billing information, contact us at 1-(800) 221-0488.

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