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The Simulated Administrative Medical Office

Practicum Skills for Medical Assistants powered by SimChart for the Medical Office

  • 1st Edition - September 18, 2014
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Julie Pepper
  • Language: English

Get two weeks of job experience under your belt with The Simulated Administrative Medical Office: Externship Practice for Medical Assisting! This simulated practicum walks you… Read more

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Get two weeks of job experience under your belt with The Simulated Administrative Medical Office: Externship Practice for Medical Assisting! This simulated practicum walks you through ten days on the job as an administrative medical assistant working in the front office of a medical practice. Clear, step-by-step instructions show you how to complete tasks — such as patient scheduling, billing, and insurance — using SimChart for the Medical Office. The guide also reinforces points of professionalism to ensure you’ll be well prepared to succeed in your actual externships and future AMA career!

* This product ISBN does NOT include a SimChart for the Medical Office access code. To purchase the text + SimChart package, please use ISBN 9780323374712.

Key features

This product does NOT include a SimChart for the Medical Office access code. To purchase the text + SimChart package, please use ISBN 9780323374712.

  • 50 tasks each simulate an actual administrative duty of the medical assistant — such as managing patient scheduling, insurance, or billing — to develop your front office skills.
  • Step-by-step instructions simplify the daily tasks and make simulations and practice more realistic.
  • Examples of forms and supplies are included online to use in completing assigned daily tasks.
  • Tasks are fully aligned with CAAHEP and ABHES competencies for medical assisting, including the newest CAAHEP standards.

Table of contents

Introduction

Day One

TASK 1.1 Risk Management
TASK 1.2 Preparing the Schedules
TASK 1.3 Scheduling Telephone Appointments and Inpatient Consultations
TASK 1.4 Written Communications
TASK 1.5 Records Management and Patient List

Day Two
TASK 2.1 Patient List
TASK 2.2 Patient Reception
TASK 2.3 Scheduling Appointments
TASK 2.4 Medical Transcription
TASK 2.5 Scheduling Emergency or Urgent Appointments

Day Three
TASK 3.1 Patient Reception and Referral
TASK 3.2 Medical Transcription
TASK 3.3 Insurance Claim Form
TASK 3.4 Written Communications
TASK 3.5 Preparing the Superbill

Day Four
TASK 4.1 Telephone Messages and Appointment Schedule
TASK 4.2 Correspondence and Mail
TASK 4.3 Scheduling Appointments
TASK 4.4 Records Management

Day Five
TASK 5.1 Medical Transcription
TASK 5.2 Posting Charges to a Superbill
TASK 5.3 Billing and Banking Procedures
TASK 5.4 Financial Management

Day Six
TASK 6.1 Internet Research
TASK 6.2 Establishing a Meeting
TASK 6.3 Telephone Messages
TASK 6.4 Scheduling Appointments

Day Seven
TASK 7.1 Insurance Claim Forms
TASK 7.2 Patient Reception
TASK 7.3 Scheduling Nursing Home Services
TASK 7.4 Telephone Messages
TASK 7.5 Scheduling Appointments
TASK 7.6 Scheduling Surgeries
TASK 7.7 Medical Records

Day Eight
TASK 8.1 Office Management
TASK 8.2 Inventory Management
TASK 8.3 Telephone Messages
TASK 8.4 Medical Transcription

Day Nine
TASK 9.1 Patient Registration Record
TASK 9.2 Health History Form

Day Ten
TASK 10.1 Obtaining Information from the EHR
TASK 10.2 Other Dashboard Features
TASK 10.3 Identifying EHR Features
TASK 10.4 Additional EHR Features

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: December 8, 2014
  • Language: English

About the author

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Julie Pepper

Julie Pepper has spent her entire career in health care as a medical assistant in a variety of offices and clinics, developing expertise in the electronic health record and as an instructor in a medical assistant program. She combines her education in dietetics with her clinical and administrative experience as an instructor in the Medical Assisting program at Chippewa Valley Technical College in Wisconsin, where she taught for 21 years and from where she retired from teaching. Julie was also the program director for the college’s Health Navigator program. She has served as a reviewer and contributor to numerous Medical Assisting educational products over the last decade, including Sim Chart for the Medical Office. She currently serves as the sole author of The Electronic Health Record for the Physician’s Office and The Simulated Administrative Medical Office. She has been leading author of Beik's Health Insurance Today text and workbook since the 8th edition. She also has been a coauthor for Kinn’s Medical Assisting Fundamentals, Kinn’s The Medical Assistant, and Today’s Medical Assistant. Julie strives to bring the needed information to students in a way to keep them interested in learning all that they need to be wonderful employees working in healthcare.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor Emeritus, Medical Assistant Program, Chippewa Valley Technical College, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, USA