The growing need for quality health care has created a large demand for trained and knowledgeable medical office specialists to help run an efficient, profitable office. Kaplan College can provide the career training you need to prepare for a position as a medical office specialist.
Skills for Life
Kaplan College's Medical Office Specialist Certificate program is designed to give you real-world knowledge that you can apply to your career and everyday life. We structure our courses to best serve local employment needs, so you can be a more desirable candidate for employment upon graduation.
Medical Office Specialist Education
As a student of our medical office specialist program, you will learn the skills specific to the needs of Denver's health care practitioners, such as:
- Medical terminology
- Basic human anatomy
- Medical insurance
- Medical records, billing, and collections
- Appointment scheduling
- Medical ethics
- Public relations
What Medical Office Specialists Do
As a medical office specialist, your job is to keep the medical office running efficiently. Kaplan College can prepare you to perform a broad range of daily activities such as:
- Processing medical records
- Filing insurance claims for both group and private practice insurance
- Using industry-related computer equipment
- Providing and entering valuable data
- Determining insurance benefits, processing claims, and obtaining settlements
- Billing and scheduling patients
- Preparing medical charts, reports, and correspondence
- Bookkeeping for payroll, withholding, and accounts payable/receivable
Career Opportunities
Make an important contribution to delivering excellent health care to patients. As a graduate from Kaplan College, you can have the opportunity to become an integral part of a medical team. Areas of employment include health clinics, private physicians' offices, hospitals, professional medical facilities, and insurance companies.