Course

Medical Billing Procedures I

Important Notice

This course is not active. Please contact Department Chair for more information.

Faculty
Commerce & Business Administration
Department
Office Administration
Course Code
OADM 1454
Credits
1.00
Semester Length
5 Weeks X 6 Hours per Week = 30 Hours
Max Class Size
24
Method(s) Of Instruction
Online
Typically Offered
To be determined

Overview

Course Description
This is a BCCampus on-line provincial course. Medical Billing Procedures I will teach the theory for billing of medical services to MSP, ICBC, WCB and other private insurers.
Course Content

The following course content will be covered:

  1. Introduction to billing for medical services
    • Resources (MSP and BCMA)
    • Preamble to the Payment Schedule
    • Guidelines and Protocols
  2. Patient coverage with MSP
  3. Reciprocal coverage (out of province)
  4. Non-insured services
  5. Process of billing to the Medical Services Plan of BC (MSP)
    •  Patient demographic information
    • Physician eligibility
  6. Billing for patient visits
    • Fee codes
    • Daysheet completion and visit coding
  7. Referrals
  8. Billing to ICBC and WCB
Learning Activities

Communications between instructor and students will be conducted online using the course email, bulletin board and chat utilities.  The instructor will guide the students through a series of learning objectives using motivation and online instruction.  The assigned readings, together with the reinforcement exercises, are the principal learning activities.  Additional materials and resources are available online.

Means of Assessment
Unit assignments     25%
Unit quizzes  40%
Final exam

 35%
Total 100%

                                                                                                                  

Note: The letter grade assigned will be determined by the college at which you are registered.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will have reliably demonstrated  the ability to:

  • Access and research the MSP and BCMA websites to retrieve information on guidelines and protocols for the billing of medical services
  • Explain the process of billing to MSP, ICBC, WCB, and other private insurers
  • Identify and use common fee codes for billing for medical services
  • Create daysheets ensuring that all patient information and billing codes are correct
Textbook Materials

Student working papers, Sally Livingstone, latest edition (online).

Requisites

Prerequisites

(OADM 1104 and OADM 1107) or equivalent

Corequisites

No corequisite courses.

Equivalencies

No equivalent courses.

Course Guidelines

Course Guidelines for previous years are viewable by selecting the version desired. If you took this course and do not see a listing for the starting semester / year of the course, consider the previous version as the applicable version.

(Current)

Course Transfers

These are for current course guidelines only. For a full list of archived courses please see https://www.bctransferguide.ca

Institution Transfer Details for OADM 1454
There are no applicable transfer credits for this course.

Course Offerings

Winter 2025