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Medical Billing and Coding Essentials

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Taught by Barbara Westrick

Health

Coursera
4.7
headline rating
Starisk
4.1
Padded

About the course

Insurance and Billing, and Coding Essentials is a comprehensive course with insight and focus on the role of the Insurance Billing Specialist. The course provides foundational knowledge required of an administrative allied healthcare professional. Emphasis is placed on the revenue cycle and basic insurance terminology. In this course, students are exposed to a variety of eLearning elements that allow hands-on interaction with the screen for an engaging education. In addition to video-based inst

The dissent

The most-upvoted critical review (12 votes, 1.0★).

“Holy Big Central. The entire specialization course is riddled with bugs, but the Billing and Coding essentials is the absolute worst. Won't let you progress past the third module. Apparently this falls in line with MedCerts in general...”

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