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Medical Office Professional Diploma Program

Southaven, MS

Medical Office Professionals play key roles behind the scenes, helping manage the administrative services from day-to-day operations to greeting patients to billing and records management, and engaging with insurance providers.

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9 / 16

Months

26.0 / 62.0

Credit Hours

240

Lab Hours

230

Externship Hoursᶛ

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Medical Office Professional Career Overview

  • Gain practical skills and clinical knowledge in a program that combines classroom teaching with an externship.
  • Learn medical billing and coding skills and prepare to sit the Certified Professional Coder examination after you graduate. 
  • Complete your diploma in as few as 8-months or associate of applied science in as few as 16-months. 
  • Choose from two campus locations: Southaven or Memphis.

Southaven Medical Office Professional Program Overview

Train to become a medical office professional with Concorde in Memphis or Southaven. Our medical office professional diploma and associate of science degree combines practical administrative support skills with foundational clinical knowledge, so you can prepare to manage records, appointments, paperwork for medical tests, medical billing and more.

As part of this program, you’ll develop medical billing and coding skills that can prepare you for the Certified Professional Coder (CPC) exam.   You can be ready for an exciting new career in less than one year! 

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Think you’d love to work in medical office administration? Get in touch with Concorde in Southaven today to find out if our diploma program is right for you!

  1. Externships are a non-paid in-person learning experience, who's length and location may be subject to change. Concorde does not guarantee externship placement, graduation, post-externship employment or salary outcomes.

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Curriculum

  • 240

    Lab Hours

    On-Campus or Virtual Labs

    Depending upon which modality students pursue, they will practice theory in simulated medical office settings either remotely or on-campus, as part of their lab requirements.

  • 230

    Externship Hours

    Real-world Experience

    All students will complete an externship, applying the theory and lab work in a hands-on experience.

Medical Office Professionals gain the skills necessary to handle most medical office business and financial operations, including accounts receivable and payable, billing and fee collection, payroll and taxes, records management, insurance claims processing, typing, and word processing.

Choose how you'll learn:

OPTION 1: Lecture/lab and externship courses delivered with an appropriate blend of both online and on-ground hours in the same course.

Of the 800 program hours, a maximum of 400 course hours (50.0%) may be offered online. 

OPTION 2:  Lecture/lab courses delivered entirely online; externship course delivered either entirely on-ground or with an appropriate blend of both online and on-ground hours in the same course.

Of the 800 program hours, a maximum of 640 course hours (80.0%) may be offered online. 

The Medical Office Professional diploma program brings a thorough understanding of medical and insurance terminology along with skills in interpersonal communications and public relations. Employment opportunities in this field are to be found in a broad range of settings, from physicians’ and dentists’ offices, to long-term-care facilities and hospitals, to medical insurance companies.

  • Medical Office Procedures
  • Computer Applications
  • Medical Terminology and Communications
  • Medical Insurance Claims Processing
  • Medical Insurance Coding
  • Medical Office Applications
  • Externship 

The Southaven medical office professional degree program includes general education courses covering mathematics, written, verbal, and nonverbal communications; interpersonal skills; critical thinking; the sciences; and the humanities.

The curriculum also covers theoretical knowledge and practical skills in computer skills, medical terminology, anatomy and physiology, medical office procedures, communication, psychosocial skills, office procedures, insurance, and ancillary coding procedures with continuous practice in the school labs

  • Computer Skills
  • Medical Terminology
  • Anatomy and Physiology
  • Medical Office Procedures
  • Communication
  • Psychosocial Skills
  • Insurance and Ancillary Coding 

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Campus Hours of Operation

  • Monday - Friday 8 am - 7 pm
  • Saturday By Appointment
  • Sunday Closed


Dec 24 - Closed
Dec 25 - Closed
Jan 1    - Closed

 

Note: The Southaven campus is a branch of the Memphis, TN campus.

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While both roles are essentially the same position, there are subtle differences required by each employer. As a medical office administrator, you handle most medical office business and financial operations. You help make it possible for your employer to collect monetary reimbursements from patients' insurance providers, essential to the success of your employer's medical business. As a medical office professional, you work in an administrative environment performing duties such as transcription, coding, billing, word processing, filing and working with various medical-office software packages.

The Medical Office Professional program can be completed in as few as eight months, but this varies by location. Please check with an admissions adviser for program length information.

Call us to find out when the Medical Office Professional (Diploma) program starts at a Concorde campus location near you.

By becoming a medical office professional, you're part of a team that helps others lead a better standard of life. You'll be working behind the scenes organizing and analyzing patient and medical information to process health insurance, medical billing, and medical coding.

Yes, Concorde offers externships in the area through a number of employer partners in various local communities near our campus locations.

For program-specific tuition information, please see the campus catalog.

The Medical Office Professional (Assocate of Applied Science) program can be completed in as few as 18 months, but this varies by location. Please check with an admissions adviser for program length information.

Call us to find out when the Medical Office Professional (Assocate of Applied Science) program starts at a Concorde campus location near you.

For program-specific tuition information, please see the campus catalog.
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  1. Program length may be subject to change dependent on transfer credits and course load. Please refer to current course catalog for more information. Concorde does not guarantee admittance, graduation, subsequent employment or salary amount.

  2. Professional certification is not a requirement for graduation, may not be a requirement for employment nor does it guarantee employment.

  3. Financial aid is available to those who qualify but may not be available for all programs. Concorde does not guarantee financial aid or scholarship awards or amounts.

  4. Clinical hour requirements and delivery may vary by campus location and may be subject to change. Concorde does not guarantee clinical site assignments based upon student preference or geographic convenience; nor do clinical experiences guarantee graduation, post-clinical employment or salary outcomes.

  5. Registration and certification requirements for taking and passing these examinations are not controlled by Concorde, but by outside agencies, and are subject to change by the agency without notice. Therefore, Concorde cannot guarantee that graduates will be eligible to take these exams, at all or at any specific time, regardless of their eligibility status upon enrollment.

  6. Externships are a non-paid in-person learning experience, whose length and location may be subject to change. Concorde does not guarantee externship placement, graduation, post-externship employment or salary outcomes.