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Oct 18, 2024
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2023-2024 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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HIMT 1410 - Healthcare Access Management
Credits: 3
The Healthcare Access Management (HAM) course covers the processed and skills required of healthcare professionals providing patient access services. Patient access services include scheduling, admissions, registration, pre-certification, financial counseling, benefit verification, and point of service collections, Patient access professionals must have strong telecommunications skills to coordinate service delivery between ordering providers, patients, and third-party payers. Employers include hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, ambulatory care providers, ambulatory surgery centers, physicians offices, clinics, home health agencies, and more. Topics covered in the course include understanding the HAM role in the revenue cycle, patient scheduling, pre-registration, and admission, the patient and family experience, regulatory compliance, bed management, information systems, and resource management.
Prerequisite: none
Prerequisite/Corequisite: none
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