career I will be pursing is Medical Coding. After receiving my Medical Assistant diploma‚ I started working in a Pediatric clinic in the back office doing patient care and front office scheduling appointments and receiving and posting payments‚ I also researched and assigned medical codes for outpatient billing using International Classification of Disease- ninth Revision‚ Clinical Modification (ICD-9) and the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) coding books. Medical Coding. I then went to work
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The future of medical transcription The future of medical transcription Many training for the field of medical transcription are in fear of choosing a career that may no longer hold value in the healthcare industry. Due to the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act‚ the United States health care system is making an industry-wide movement towards an electronic environment for health information management (Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information
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Certified Medical Assistants The decision to go into health care was an easy decision for me. It started with the birth of my son‚ he was born premature. He weighed two pounds 13 ounces; he needed specialized care which was provided by neonatal nurses. Neonatal nursing is a relatively new specialty by comparison to adult health‚ midwifery‚ or other areas of nursing. Because it is new‚ there are great opportunities for nurses to devote their skills to newborns who need specialized care. Neonatal
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Becoming a Medical Examiner has a long process as does any career. Apart from schooling‚ residency‚ volunteering and common knowledge a medical examiner has to be well immersed in the medical field. Starting with college‚ one aspiring to be a Medical Examiner would need to have a Bachelor degree in Pathology‚ Chemistry and Physics along with getting their Medical Doctorate and have 3-4 years of residency in a government issued hospital. In total‚ a Medical Examiner would have to attend school for
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Student Name HCA/220 April‚ 28 2013 Medical Report Assignment PAITENT NAME: Smith‚ John HOSPITAL NUMBER: 859-656-6561 DATE OF ADMISSION: July‚ 23 20xx |Chapter 3 – Medical Record | |History of Present Illness | |The patient arrived‚ complaining of chronic abdominal pain‚ vomiting
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Abstract Medical identity theft is rapidly growing. Medical identity theft is when someone takes your medical identity and uses it to get medical care and/or financial gain. There is ways to help protect yourself from this crime you need to check your medical information. If you find errors you need to file a police report and give copies of the police report to the appropriate people. You also have to get the errors you find in your medical records corrected‚ which can be hard to do because your
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way you made them feel‚” medical assistants do not get a lot of credit‚ but they do work very hard and make a lasting impression on their patients. In fact‚ I would say that besides making an impression on the patient medical assistants do a lot of the charting and taking vitals. A medical assistant wears many hats and is educated on many different things‚ which makes the setting the work in after their training determine what tasks they may do on a daily basis. Medical assistants can do many different
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Medical Lab Tech Why do I want to choose this career? After I get out of high school I plan to be a medical lab tech. I choose this career because since everybody is getting sick these days‚ the medical field will be what I look forward to. Also‚ I plan to help people fight diseases and have better searches against infectious diseases. What is a Medical Lab Tech? This is also known as a medical laboratory technician or a clinical laboratory technician. A medical lab tech (MLT) performs routine
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Tilly English 111340 23 October 2012 Caps on Medical Malpractice Suits Medical malpractice cases have been on a steady rise. Malpractice has affected most of the United States resulting in an increase on insurance premiums for physicians and a decrease in important specialist. Medical malpractice cap reforms have been adopted by several states across America due to these increases and decreases. Malpractice caps should not be put on medical malpractice cases because the caps cover up the real
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in a medical assistant’s decisions on a daily basis. The research includes three different situations where the medical assistant was influenced by laws and regulations and the release of patients personal and medical information. I will also be discussing the relevant components of a patient’s medical record‚ and what a physician looks for in it. There will be an overview of all the documentation that would be in these components. The first situation where the actions of a medical assistant
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