Description
Come and explore the medical coding career with this online course! Learn to use the CPT manual and the ICD-9-CM to find medical codes for any disease, condition, treatment, or surgical procedure. Study the main systems of the human body - integumentary (skin), musculoskeletal, respiratory, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, endocrine, and male and female genitourinary?outlining the medical terminology, conditions, diseases, injuries, treatments, and procedures common to them. Medical Coding prepares you to work in doctors' offices, public health facilities, hospitals, labs, nursing homes, insurance agencies, or from home. You'll need access to the 2009 or 2010 CPT manual, Professional Edition and to the 2009, 2010 or 2011 ICD-9-CM, Physician Edition. You have 8 weeks to complete the 24 hours of content on-line. Register at www.ed2go.com/iavalley/. This course begins the 3rd Wed. of each month.