Here is a reminder of upcoming Continuing Education classes in October. Please sign up via the LMS.

CPT/ICD9 Coding Review
This two-session course is for physician office front office staff such as receptionists, cashiers
and preauthorization clerks. Students will review the use of the CPT Coding manual, the ICD9
coding manual and the HCPCS manual. Students will learn how to look up codes using the
three manuals, as well as GE Centricity and the internet. Special emphasis will be placed on
place of service, global periods, office procedures, diagnosis sequencing, E Codes, V Codes,
medical necessity and supporting documentation.

I don’t know what it is, but I’ve always seemed to work in offices that are dominated by females. My career is in the field of Social Services which is considered a nurturing profession. In the balance of energy, in the yin and yang of things, nurturing falls more on the female side of the scales. It’s been a decent way to make a living, but I’ll tell ‘ya nurturing and compassion doesn’t pay all that well. I suppose my pious bank account is earning interest. As a male, I have become use to being the minority in the office.

“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.”
Carl Rogers

Barton University is here to serve you! Our goal is to provide the courses that will meet your educational needs. We are currently scheduling classes for our January 2010 catalogue. Please let me know what classes you would like to see offered.

If you are a medical professional, please let me know of any courses you would like to see offered within your specific discipline. This may include new and innovative treatments, procedures and updates.

Rust never sleeps. Ain’t that the truth? If you substitute “time” for “rust” the message is less metaphorical, yet more comprehensible. The morbid truth is that time is the evil twin of the grim reaper. Time is a relentless stalker. He is always just one step behind, manically breathing down your neck. His job is to remind us that life is fragile and everything is temporary. There is a moment, and it is gone – the next moment, and it too is gone. And no one knows how many moments will comprise a lifetime, or how many grains of sand are left in the hour glass.

We went to church the other day. We went to that sacred granite cathedral on the eastern side of the Sierras: Yosemite. It was a planned road trip with my twenty year old son and his eighteen year old cousin. The first leg of our trip brought us to the Santa Cruz coast. We tore down that open highway singing along to the Red Hot Chili Peppers, “Road trippin’ with my two favorite allies. Fully loaded; we got snacks and supplies. It’s time to leave this town; it’s time to steal away. Let’s go get lost anywhere: in the USA.