Medical Office Specialist
This Medical Office Specialist Certificate is a short-term program that prepares you for employment in physician's offices, medical insurance companies, and hospital offices. Some of the duties of a Medical Office Specialist include but are not limited to preparing patient insurance claims, processing accounts payable and accounts receivable, scheduling appointments, preparing patient files, coordinating the patient filing system, preparing medical correspondence, processing medical records, and scheduling hospital admissions.
Medical Office Specialists organize and manage health information data. They ensure its quality, accuracy, accessibility, and security in both paper and electronic systems. A Medical Office Specialist Certificate prepares you to work as a Health Information Technician or a Medical Office Specialist.
What’s the Job Outlook for Health Information Technicians?
Employment of medical records and health information technicians is projected to grow by 8% from 2022 to 2032, faster than the average for all occupations.
What’s Required to Complete the Medical Office Specialist Certificate?
A certificate in medical office specialist from WCCCD requires 27 credits to complete.
As a medical office specialist student at WCCCD, you’ll take both general education courses and courses required for a medical office specialist major.
How Long Does it Take to Earn a Medical Office Specialist Certificate?
Most medical office specialist students take two semesters (1 year) to complete the certificate prerequisites and required courses.
What Will I Learn as a Medical Office Specialist Student?
WCCCD medical office specialist students learn to use various classification systems to code and categorize patient information for insurance reimbursement purposes, for databases and registries, and to maintain patients’ medical and treatment histories.
Recommended course sequencing
Semester 1 Total: 15 Credits
- ALH 110 - Medical Terminology 3 Credit(s)
- ALH 115 - Medical Computer Systems 3 Credit(s)
- ACC 100 - Introduction to Accounting 3 Credit(s)
- MBS 108 - Medical Coding 3 Credit(s)
- ENG 119 - English I 3 Credit(s)
Semester 2 Total: 12 Credits
- MOS 120 - Medical Office Management 3 Credit(s)
- MBS 112 - Medical Billing 3 Credit(s)
- SOC 100 - Introduction to Sociology 3 Credit(s)
- MOS 140 - Patient Care Management 3 Credit(s)
Where is WCCCD’s Medical Office Specialist Program Offered?
The Medical Office Specialist program is offered at our Northwest and Ted Scott campuses.
As a WCCCD student, you can take courses, use facilities, and get involved at any of our six locations.
It is the policy of WCCCD that no person, based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, height, weight, marital status, disability, or political affiliation or belief, shall be discriminated against, excluded from participation in, denied the benefits of, or otherwise be subjected to discrimination in employment or in any program or activity for which it is responsible or for which it receives financial assistance from the U.S. Department of Education.
