Medical Administrative Specialist (B070300)

The Medical Administrative Specialist program trains students for employment as Medical Office Specialists. Upon completion of their program, students will seek jobs with the following titles:  Medical Receptionists, Medical Office Specialist and Medical Secretaries. Jobs are available in a variety of setting such as hospital, clinics, and physicians’ offices. This program does not prepare students for direct patient care.  The content of this program includes, but is not limited to, the use of technology to develop communications skills, higher level thinking skills, and decision making skills; medical terminology; the performance of office procedures specific to the medical environment; transcription of medical documents from machine dictation; the production of quality work in an efficient manner using advanced features of business software applications; research of job opportunities; and job-seeking documents.

This program trains students to become proficient in the following medical office tasks:

• Greet patients and obtain patient information

• Answer the medical office telephone

• Handle patient inquires

• Update patient medical records

• Schedule patient appointments using computerized medical office software

• Patient registration

• Handle medical office correspondence

• Verify patient insurance

• Collect patient co-pays and bill balances

• Perform basic medical office bookkeeping 

• Knowledge of basic medical terminology

• Knowledge of current government regulations and laws (HIPAA, OSHA, CLIA).

Program content includes the following courses:

Enrollment

George Stone Technical College has an open-enrollment policy. Provided there is seat availability in the desired class, the student may begin classes on the first Monday of each quarter.

Program Times

Program Costs

Industry Salaries

Salary Rate: $30,000 - $47,000

Pensacola Average:$30,162

State Average: $30,202

National Average: $34,965

Instructor Contact Information

Phone: 850 786 6562

Email: agilmore@ecsdfl.us

Location: Building 3, Room 319

Office hours:  Monday through Friday 7:30AM - 3:00PM