About the Course

Every health care facility needs a trained medical administrative assistant to oversee the day-to-day operations of the office. With the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) projecting above average growth for professionals in the health care industry, now is the time to prepare!

From greeting patients and handling paperwork to overseeing billing and managing health records, you'll be prepared to play a vital role in any health care environment.
                                                           
Choose a training option with Allied and be prepared for reward and opportunity! Call (888) 822-2923 to get started today – learn online with an interactive training option that provides the educational foundation you need.  

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• Courses
  • Medical Terminology for Administrative Assisting
  • Medical Administrative Assisting
• Programs
  • Medical Administrative Assisting Career Training Program
  • Medical Administrative Assisting Career Training Program (with test-out for terminology)

About the Courses

Medical Terminology for Administrative Assisting

Course Materials

• Medical Terminology:  A Short Course, Fifth Edition
• 6 Modules – online lessons, multiple-choice online quizzes
• Online Final Exam – no proctor required

Allied's Medical Terminology for Administrative Assisting course will teach you the accurate uses, definitions, spelling, and pronunciations of complex medical terminology used throughout the health care field. You will analyze terms from all major body systems while learning to divide them into suffixes, prefixes, combining forms, and root words.

Additionally, you will be introduced to common medical abbreviations, acronyms, eponyms and symbols. Through practical applications, you will learn to relate medical terms to diagnoses, tests and procedures.

Medical Administrative Assisting

*Prerequisite: Medical Terminology for Administrative Assisting
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Course Materials

• Kinn’s The Administrative Medical Assistant An Applied Learning Approach, Sixth Edition, textbook and CD-ROM
• Study Guide for Kinn’s The Administrative Medical Assistant An Applied Learning Approach, Sixth Edition
• Virtual Medical Office for Young: Kinn’s The Administrative Medical Assistant, Sixth Edition
• 27 Modules – online lessons, reading assignments, study guide exercises, multiple choice online quizzes, practical assignments using the Virtual Medical Office Software (10 modules)
• Online Final Exam – no proctored required

Allied’s Medical Administrative Assisting course will teach you common clerical duties performed by medical administrative assistants. You will be taught proper techniques for greeting patients, answering telephones, scheduling appointments and surgeries, updating medical records, and how to handle all types of correspondence.

You will also learn how to enter patient and guarantor information into a computer and how to construct a patient’s chart. Health information management and the role of records management will be reviewed in detail. Additionally, you will learn office accounting, filing procedures, banking services, practice finances, and medical practice marketing and customer service. 

You will also acquire knowledge of procedural and diagnosis coding as well as the basics of medical billing, including how to determine insurance coverage, professional fees, billing, and the collections process.

Through a virtual medical office experience, you will work with multiple patient simulations so that you receive hands-on practice providing high-quality medical administrative assistance. With a career development unit, you will receive preparation for job interviews, instruction on how to write an effective resume, organize a job search and more.

Want a Full Program? These Programs Provide Comprehensive Career Training.

Combine your medical terminology and medical administrative assistant courses with additional medical training options to maximize your career opportunities. These programs provide a comprehensive education that covers the areas you need to know in your medical administrative assistant career.

Medical Administrative Assisting Career Training Program

• Medical Terminology for Administrative Assisting
• Medical Administrative Assisting
• Medical Billing Technology
• Electronic Health Records

Medical Administrative Assisting Career Training Program (with test-out for terminology)

• Medical Administrative Assisting
• Medical Billing Technology
• Electronic Health Records

Call (888) 822-2923 to Enroll

Call (888) 822-2923 today to enroll and be prepared join the growing health care industry! Opportunity awaits you in medical offices nationwide!