Medical Assistant: Administrative
Certificate Program
Department of Business
Studies
Penn 401 • Phone: (215) 968-8227
Curriculum Code No. 3148
Administrative medical assistants complete office paperwork, schedule patients, and handle insurance billing in physicians’ offices, clinics, or insurance companies. They may work as admitting clerks, billing agents, or medical transcriptionists in hospital outpatient areas.
Graduates of this program are able to
- perform basic administrative medical assisting functions including scheduling, appointments, coding, managing accounts receivables and payables, and maintaining accounting records;
- perform within legal and ethical boundaries;
- display a professional manner and image; and
- demonstrate an understating of the anatomical structure and physiological functions of the human body and of medical terms descriptive of body systems.
Certificate Requirements
| OADM140 | Keyboarding/Typewriting I A | 3 |
| MEDA120 | Medical Terminology | 3 |
| MEDA215 | Medical Administrative Procedures A | 3 |
| MEDA216 | Medical Insurance, Billing, & Reimbursement A | 3 |
| MEDA275 | Medical Transcription I A | 3 |
| HITT297 | Medical Coding A | 3 |
| MEDA205 | Medical Law and Ethics | 3 |
| MEDA220 | Medical Assisting Externship A | 3 |
| 24* |
ACourse requires prerequisite.
* All students are required to pass OADM140 Keyboarding/Typewriting either by taking the course at Bucks County Community College or by passing the appropriate challenge test given by the Office Administration Area at the College. A competency of 35 words a minute with a 5-error maximum on a 5-minute timed writing is required.
Since the individual circumstances and backgrounds of students vary, all students planning to complete this certificate program must meet with their assigned academic advisor to develop a planned sequence of courses to meet their individual needs.
Program Information
Academic Year 2010/2011
| OPE ID: | 323900 |
| CIP: | 51.0801 |
| SOC: | 43-6013 |
| Length: | 24 Credits
2 Semesters |
Related Occupations
Administrative support in a physician’s offices, clinics, insurance companies. May work as admitting agents or medical transcriptionists in hospital outpatient areas
Cost
| Tuition: | $2520 |
| Fees: | $698 |
| Books/Supplies: | $1285.68 |
| Total: | $4503.68 |
More cost information can be found here:
Completion Stats
| Completing in 2010/2011: | 3 students |
| Completing in 2010/2011 with debt: | 0 students |
| Median debt of 2010/2011 completers: | 0 |
| Normal time to complete program: | 12 months |
| Completed in normal time: | 0 students |
| Job placement rate: | 0 |
