Healthcare

This hands-on workshop is designed to introduce Medical Office Staff to the fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence (AI), with a particular focus on large language models like ChatGPT. Participants will learn how to ethically and effectively leverage these powerful tools to streamline administrative tasks, enhance patient communication, improve documentation, and maintain compliance within a healthcare environment. The course emphasizes practical application, responsible AI use, and understanding the limitations of AI in sensitive medical contexts

In this online Certified Medical Administrative Assistant with Medical Billing and Coding course, you will learn what is required to succeed, including the foundations of medical assisting, professional behavior, legal and ethical issues, effective communication, and managing patient interactions.

The medical billing and coding program curriculum offers valuable training in legal, ethical, and regulatory concepts central to this field, including HIPAA compliance, official coding guidelines, and third-party payer requirements. You will understand all phases of the revenue cycle—from patient registration to reimbursement and collections. You will learn medical terminology as you study word parts and the structures and functions of the human body.

Upon completing the course, you will be prepared for the Certified Medical Administrative Assistant (CMAA) certification exam offered by the National Health career Association (NHA) and receive a voucher that covers the exam fee. You will also receive a voucher for one of the following medical billing and coding certification exams:

• Certified Professional Coder (CPC) exam offered by the American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC)
• Certified Coding Associate (CCA) exam offered by the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA)
• Certified Billing and Coding Specialist (CBCS) exam offered by the National Health career Association (NHA)

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Our Medical Billing and Coding course will prepare you for success as you learn about legal, ethical, and regulatory concepts central to this field, including HIPAA compliance, official coding guidelines, and third-party payer requirements. You will come to understand all phases of the revenue cycle—from patient registration through medical coding, claims submission, reimbursement, and collections.

What You Will Learn

• Medical coding terminology is required for medical coding, including the structures and functions of the human body
• The disorders and medical procedures common to each body system
• Legal, ethical, and regulatory concepts central to the field, including HIPAA compliance and third-party guidelines for filing insurance claims
• The main coding manuals: ICD-10-CM, ICD-10-PCS, CPT, and HCPCS Level II
• How to code diagnoses, services, and procedures for all systems of the body
• Fundamentals of medical billing and coding and medical terminology
• Word parts and the structures and functions of the human body
• Hands on exposure to an encoder application: Codify (AAPC)

After successfully completing the Medical Billing and Coding course requirements, you should be well prepared to find your place in this rewarding healthcare career. You will get to choose a voucher for the professional medical billing and coding certification exam that best aligns with your interests and career goals:

• Certified Professional Coder (CPC) exam offered by the American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC)
• Certified Coding Associate (CCA) exam offered by the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA)
• Certified Billing and Coding Specialist (CBCS) exam offered by the National Health career Association (NHA)

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The Medical Interpreter training course prepares you to work in hospitals, medical offices and in any healthcare environment where a Spanish interpreter is needed. In addition, the Medical Interpreter training course prepares you to sit in any of the Medical Interpreting examinations available in the country. This course is language specific – Spanish/English.

You will acquire the three interpreting skills – simultaneous, consecutive and sight translation. You will learn the proper transfer of medical terminology into Spanish, divided into the different areas in a hospital and medical specialties. Intensive online interpreting laboratory practices are included in this training course.

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This comprehensive course equips students with the fundamental knowledge and skills essential for providing care to individuals in long-term care settings. Students will learn to deliver personal care, perform basic nursing tasks, assist in basic emergencies, recognize common health indicators, ensure a clean and safe setting, and implement infection control measures. Successful completion qualifies Nurse Aide Trainees to take the Credentia-administered Pennsylvania certification exams, leading to placement on the PA Nurse Aide Registry upon passing. The class is 120 hours, approximately 6 weeks long, 25 classes total.

Course Dates:  

Mandatory Nurse Aide Orientation:
– Saturday August 30 @ 9am
– Wednesday September 10th @ 6pm
– Saturday September 27th @ 9am

All sessions will be held at our Schnecksville campus.
Please plan to be there for approximately 2 hours.
Orientation is free of charge, but attendance is required prior to enrolling in any NA course.
Before course registration, all necessary paperwork must be completed and submitted.
To register for an orientation session: Complete the form or send an email to: workforce@lccc.edu.

Medical Office Administrators are responsible for front office duties, including answering phones, greeting patients, managing health records, diagnosis and procedure coding, maintaining records, scheduling appointments, ordering supplies, inventory, and insurance filing and billing.

Medical Office Administrator can work in physicians’ offices, medical clinics, long-term care facilities, hospitals, hospice, and insurance companies.

A Pharmacy Technician who works under the direct supervision of a licensed pharmacist can supply medicines to patients whether on prescription or over the counter, assemble medicines for prescriptions, provide information to patients and other healthcare professionals, manage areas of medicines supply such as dispensaries, supervise other pharmacy staff, and produce medicines in hospitals and the pharmaceutical industry.

Pharmacy Technicians can work at retail pharmacies, closed-door pharmacies, hospitals, and nursing facilities.

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Phlebotomists are people trained to draw blood from a patient for clinical or medical testing, transfusions, donations, or research. Phlebotomists collect blood by performing venipunctures or for collection of minute quantities of blood, capillary sticks.

Phlebotomists work in hospitals, medical and diagnostic laboratories, community health centers, blood donor centers, doctors’ offices, and nursing facilities.

Sterile Processing Technicians (SPT), also known as Central Service Technicians or Certified Sterilization Technicians, play a critical role in preventing infection by sterilizing, cleaning, processing, assembling, storing, and distributing medical supplies— and now is an excellent time to train for your sterile processing technician certification.

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