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Health Care Office Manager Degree

Earn your degree in medical office administration

Career options

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• Health care office manager
• Health insurance specialist
• Medical assistant
• Medical receptionist

Get training for a career as a health care office manager with this comprehensive program. You’ll develop the skills necessary to manage day-to-day operations of a medical facility. Chicago and the northern Illinois region has a robust health care industry, and medical office managers are needed at the many hospitals, medical offices, clinics, extended care facilities, home health care agencies or various acute-care settings.

You’ll take a variety of courses designed to give you a thorough understanding of health care office management. Courses cover health care technology and informatics, medical terminology, health care records management, legal and ethical issues in health care, math applications in health care, principles of health insurance billing and health care office management. During the final semester of the program, you’ll also complete a medical office capstone project.

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Program learning outcomes

Program outcomes for graduates of the Health Care Office Manager Degree include:

• Understand the functions of medical office management.
• Communicate effectively with employees, patients and all members of the healthcare team.
• Use interpersonal and communication skills to build and maintain cooperative working relationships.
• Demonstrate knowledge of general management functions.
• Demonstrate knowledge of bookkeeping, insurance, collections and managed care systems.
• Demonstrate knowledge of medical office health and safety regulations.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the medicolegal implications and responsibilities related to the functioning of a medical office.
• Perform operational and maintenance functions; i.e., inventory of supplies and equipment, routine maintenance of equipment.
• Utilize computer software to maintain office systems.