Medical Coding Certificate Program – MCODE

Lakewood University’s Medical Coding program is to provide a comprehensive understanding of medical billing and its components. This program will contain many topics regarding medical coding such as how to navigate through the ICD-10-CM, Current Procedural Terminology (CPT), and HCPCS. This program will also take students through a series of individual coding cases that will require them to use all three coding books for individual body systems.

Program Outcomes

  1. Locate and translate regulatory rules and regulations as they apply to medical billing and coding, including Medicare Parts A, B, C, and D.  
  2. Demonstrate the ability to utilize the ICD-10-CM, CPT, and HCPCS manuals.  
  3. Choose diagnoses and procedures using the ICD-10, CPT, & HCPCS manuals, following chapter-specific guidelines. 
  4. Demonstrate the ability to abstract diagnostic statements from the medical record and differentiate between main and modifying terms and subterms in the coding manuals
Total credits:
400

Overview

Type

Vocational

Program Length

16 Weeks