Module 5 Associate Degree Competencies

As part of your health Information Technology program, you were required to complete a course in reimbursement for healthcare. At CCSF, the courses HIT 78 (Reimbursement) and HIT 74 (Quality) were combined into one course HIT 79 (Healthcare Quality and Reimbursement). This was done to reflect the current industry standards of Pay-for-Performance and Value-Based Purchasing and based on recommendations from the HIT Advisory Committee.

The AHIMA Council for Excellence in Education (CEE) establishes curricula for HIM programs at the associate, baccalaureate and graduate level. The CEE has approved the 2018 AHIMA HIM Curricula Competencies for implementation in the CAHIIM accreditation process.

Background

Many changes have occurred in the AS Degree competencies. Most of the significant changes have been necessary based on industry standards, changing regulations, and the advent of the electronic health record. CAHIIM and AHIMA review competencies and revise according to the industry needs in order to be certain that emerging professionals are well-prepared for the job market. Sometimes this means strengthening existing competencies, revising the Bloom's level, or combining domains. Please listen to the following video for more discussion on these changes. If you would like to use closed captioning for the video, please click on the gear wheel , and select captions and then "English."

CAHIIM Associate Degree Competencies

When students review material and prepare for the RHIT exam, of they wonder "where did I learn this"? Students who completed the program part-time due to work or family responsibilities may be at an even more significant disadvantage because foundational material was studied several years before graduation.

Reimbursement skills have been part of the AS degree competencies and now are even more important. AHIMA deleted the Domain that was dedicated to coding and classification systems and now includes coding in Domain IV: Revenue Cycle.

The table below details the AS Degree competencies. Those rows highlighted are related to revenue cycle. Also indicated is the CCSF course number where the material was presented. The course assignments may change each semester but generally if you are wondering in which course the material was covered, this chart will help refresh your experience.