Med-Certification

MEDICAL CAREER CERTIFICATION

With the proliferation of educational opportunities on-line, it is important to have the tools to evaluate the effectiveness of programs offered. Learning outcomes describe what is expected if a training program is selected, including anticipated understanding, knowledge, skill, and competency.

Medical careers increasingly require certification to help assure compliance with the regulatory and privacy acts to protect private information and show competency with skills required in a given employment situation.

For both career certification and for education, the knowledge based outcome should prove and be able to show evidence of the learning or acquired knowledge.

The outcome and certification tests devised by Med-Certification.Com are designed to test and report the competencies achieved in a given career whether the knowledge and skill are a result of on the job training or school-based training programs. The tests require the ability to clearly understand a question, then analyze and solve a problem whether it is based on the language of medicine, medical protocols, billing or coding questions, or privacy laws.

Certify in billing, coding, transcription, health information records, scribing, medical office specialist, medical office administration, medication aide at www.med-certification.com. Practice tests are available to help discover any areas of knowledge gaps in order to prepare for the certification exam itself.

Medicare cards (SSNRI cards).
News on Medicare replacement cards: CMS is removing Social Security Numbers from Medicare cards to help fight identity theft and safeguard taxpayer dollars. In previous messages, CMS said that providers must be ready by April 2018 for the change from the Social Security Number based Health Insurance Claim Number to the randomly generated Medicare Beneficiary Identifier (the new Medicare number). Up to now, they referred to this work as the Social Security Number Removal Initiative (SSNRI). Moving forward, they will refer to this project as the New Medicare Card.
To help providers find information quickly, CMS designed a new homepage to provide the latest details, including how to talk to Medicare patients about the new Medicare Card. Bookmark the New Medicare Card homepage Remember, providers need to be ready by April 1, 2018.
CMS plans to have a transition period where either the HICN (Health Insurance Claim Number) or the MBI (Medicare Beneficiary Identifier) may be used to exchange data with CMS. The transition period will begin no earlier than April 1, 2018 and run through December 31, 2019.
MORE ACRONYMS TO REMEMBER 
• HICN Health Insurance Claim Number
• MBI Medicare Beneficiary Identifier
During the transition period, they will monitor the use of HICNs {Health Insurance Claim Number) and MBIs (Medicare Beneficiary Identifier) to see how many providers are ready to use only MBIs by January 2020. They will also actively monitor the transition and adjustment to the new MBIs to make sure of their wide-spread adoption so Medicare operations aren’t interrupted.
After the transition period ends on January 1, 2020, providers will need to use MBIs on claims with a few exceptions when you either the HICN or MBI is used. See the CMS website for more information.