BUSN 2340 HEALTHCARE ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES
Emphasizes essential skills required for the business healthcare office. Introduces the knowledge, skills, and procedures needed to understand billing purposes. Introduces the basic concept of business healthcare administrative assisting and its relationship to the other health fields. Emphasizes healthcare regulations and ethics; and, the healthcare administrative assistant's role as an agent of the physician. Provides the student with knowledge and the essentials of professional behavior. Topics include: introduction to business healthcare procedures, healthcare regulations ethics, healthcare records management, scheduling appointments, health insurance, billing/collection, work area management, resource utilization, and office equipment.
Lecture Hours
30
Lab Hours
60
Prerequisite
class='sc-courselink' href='/en/2026-2027/2026-2027-academic-catalog/course-descriptions/comp-introduction-to-computers/1000/comp-1000'>COMP 1000 and BUSN 1010 only or one of BUSN 2300 or ALHS 1090, and one of BUSN 2310, ALHS 1100, or ALHS 1011.
Corequisite
None