School of Healthcare Management


Degree Program:  Associate of Science in Medical Billing and Coding

  • Course:  

    HIT295

    -- Health Internship
  • Credits:  4
  • Prerequisites:  HIT294  
    - By Approval
  • Description:  
    This course provides students with a real-life experience in learning the operations and functions of health information programs within a health organization. Students will be matched with an advisor who, working in cooperative assistance with CTU, will assign students a health information project to work on during the internship. As a graded exercise, students will be given a grade for their contribution to their internship effort.


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Sampling of Additional Courses applicable to this degree program

  • Course:  BIO141 -- Human Anatomy and Physiology I
  • Credits:  4
  • Prerequisites:  NONE
  • Description:  
    This course is a study of the structure and function of the systems and organs of the human body and their interrelationships. The emphasis is on cell and tissue structure, integumentary, musculoskeletal, nervous, and endocrine systems.

  • Course:  BIO121 -- Medical Terminology
  • Credits:  4
  • Prerequisites:  NONE
  • Description:  
    This course is designed for students in the allied health curriculum who need to know the language of healthcare. The purpose of the course is to help the student to succeed in a chosen healthcare career by familiarizing them with how medical words are formed and by providing a systematic learning structure. Students will need to learn various parts of a term including prefixes, roots, suffixes and combining forms as used in the study of the human body.

  • Course:  BIO142 -- Human Anatomy and Physiology II
  • Credits:  4
  • Prerequisites:  BIO141  
  • Description:  
    This course focuses on the structure, function and interrelationship of organs and systems in the human. Emphasis is placed on the endocrine, cardiovascular, immune, digestive, urinary, and reproductive systems.

  • Course:  HIT100 -- Health Services Organizations
  • Credits:  4
  • Prerequisites:  NONE
  • Description:  
    This course provides an introduction into healthcare organizations. Students are introduced to the wide ranging types of health delivery organizations including hospitals, ambulatory care programs, physician offices, surgicenters and allied health providers. Topics include organizations, healthcare personnel, finance, public health, Medicare, managed care and nursing homes.

  • Course:  HIT105 -- IT for Healthcare Professionals
  • Credits:  4
  • Prerequisites:  NONE
  • Description:  
    This course is an introduction to Information Technology (IT) for Healthcare Professionals. Topics include operating systems, introduction to networking, the Internet, database concepts, radiological information systems, and hospital information systems. We will examine the future of IT in the health sciences by looking at internet information, ethical and security issues.

  • Course:  HIT120 -- Introduction to ICD-9 Classification and Reimbursement
  • Credits:  4
  • Prerequisites:  NONE
  • Description:  
    This course provides an introduction into the processes used in the healthcare industry for disease classifications and reimbursement. Students are introduced to disease, diagnostic procedures, and the processes used in classifying used in identifying and categorization. Topics include introduction to classification systems, coding, ICD-9 coding, and inpatient reimbursement methods including Fee for Service, diagnostic related groupings (DRGs), All Inclusive Rates, Risk Assignment and outpatient reimbursement.

  • Course:  HIT130 -- Introduction to CPT Coding and Billing
  • Credits:  4
  • Prerequisites:  NONE
  • Description:  
    This course continues from HIT120 into the processes used in medical insurance for coding and billing. Students are introduced to Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) processes and using CPT errata. Topics include coding systems and traditional reimbursement methods.

  • Course:  HIT140 -- Healthcare Management
  • Credits:  4
  • Prerequisites:  NONE
  • Description:  
    This course provides an introduction into the management of healthcare organizations. Management practices relating to organizational planning, organizing, controlling and motivating are discussed. Special emphasis is laced on management within professional healthcare settings including hospitals, large clinic settings and the involvement of professional staff.

  • Course:  HIT210 -- Healthcare Economics
  • Credits:  4
  • Prerequisites:  NONE
  • Description:  
    This course provides an introduction into the economic forces facing the healthcare industry on a micro-economic level. Students learn how economic principles, forces and market conditions impact on healthcare providers, organizations and patients. Topics include market conditions, supply and demand, consumer demand, competition, monopoly, government intervention and aggregate supply and demand.

  • Course:  HIT233 -- Fundamentals of Health Tech Systems
  • Credits:  4
  • Prerequisites:  NONE
  • Description:  
    This course provides intermediate icd-9-cm coding conventions and practices. Students are introduced to the skills, concepts and knowledge needed to provide and maintain reimbursement for organizations.

  • Course:  HIT260 -- Healthcare Legal Concepts
  • Credits:  4
  • Prerequisites:  NONE
  • Description:  
    This course provides an introduction into the legal forces facing the healthcare practitioner and organizations. Students learn how common law, statutes and court decisions impact on healthcare providers, organizations and patients. Topics include Introduction to legal systems, the physician-patient relationship, organizations, antitrust law, hospital admission and discharge, consent, medical records, liability, physician responsibilities and peer review mechanisms.

  • Course:  HIT294 -- Preparation Course for Health Internship
  • Credits:  4
  • Prerequisites:    
    - By Approval
  • Description:  
    This course provides students with the opportunity to determine where they can do their health internship within a health organization. Students are to identify an organization, advisor and a project they wish to perform for their internship requirement. Students are required to organize and write a paper on the project that will serve as the basis for their internship.

  • Course:  HIT295 -- Health Internship
  • Credits:  4
  • Prerequisites:  HIT294  
    - By Approval
  • Description:  
    This course provides students with a real-life experience in learning the operations and functions of health information programs within a health organization. Students will be matched with an advisor who, working in cooperative assistance with CTU, will assign students a health information project to work on during the internship. As a graded exercise, students will be given a grade for their contribution to their internship effort.



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