Program Overview

Certificate Program in Health Care Office Administration: Managing, Coding, and Billing

The certificate program in Health Care Office Administration: Managing, Coding, and Billing offers educational opportunities in health care office administration for both employees in the field and newly graduated high school students. The curriculum develops students' communication, interpersonal, and business management skills, providing a broad understanding of how society deals with health and disease. It also develops familiarity with human physiology/anatomy, provides instruction in medical office procedures and technology, coding and billing, and includes an optional business internship experience.

Certificate Program Requirements

The certificate program has specific requirements that students must fulfill to complete the program.

Explore Potential Careers

This Career and Technical Education (CTE) certificate program has additional benefits for students made possible by Perkins funding.

Certificate Maps

• Cert in HCOA with developmental placement
  • This certificate map outlines the program requirements for students who require developmental placement.
• Cert in HCOA no developmental placement
  • This certificate map outlines the program requirements for students who do not require developmental placement.

Student Learning Outcomes for Academic Programs

General Education Outcomes

A robust general education is founded on the knowledge, concepts, methods, and perspectives that students gain through the study of many academic disciplines. These disciplinary studies stimulate intellectual inquiry, global awareness, and cultural and artistic appreciation, equipping students to make informed judgments and remain engaged beyond the classroom. To that end, the institution promotes educational activities that allow students to demonstrate that they can:

1. Communicate effectively in various forms
2. Use analytical reasoning to identify issues or problems and evaluate evidence in order to make informed decisions
3. Reason quantitatively as required in various fields of interest and in everyday life
4. Apply information management and digital technology skills useful for academic research and lifelong learning
5. Apply scientific methods and reasoning to investigate issues or problems in the natural and social sciences in order to draw conclusions

To support these institutional general education outcomes, the academic departments, through their programs, may also assess the ability of students to:

• Integrate knowledge and skills in the program of study
• Make ethical judgments while recognizing multiple perspectives, as appropriate in the program of study
• Work collaboratively to accomplish learning objectives

Approved by the Academic Senate on April 13, 2021.