Academy of
Certified Medical Coding Auditors
Online Learning
Policies:
Contents:
1.
ACMCA General Policy Information
2.
Terms and Conditions
2.
A Privacy Policy
3.
Return/Refund Policy
1.
ACMCA General Policy Information
Continuing Education Unit (CEU)
One CEU = ten contact hours of participation in organized continuing
education/training experience under responsible, qualified direction and
instruction (as defined by the International Association for Continuing
Education and Training-IACET). CEUs are based on the number of sixty-minute
contact hours for a course or program. For example, an 8 CEU ACMCA course is 80
hours of study or participation. An
ACMCA 8 hour CEU class will have 90-day term dates. In other words, the student has 90 days to
complete the coursework within the 12 weeks of course access. To receive CEUs, you must complete the entire
course or program for which you have enrolled.
Earned CEUs may be useful in maintaining certification or
licensing. They may also document your continuing professional education for an
employer, association or credentialing agency. The ACMCA will maintain a record
of the CEUs you have earned through our programs and courses. CEUs are for
non-credit courses or programs. The CEU courses cannot be converted to quarter
or semester hour credit and they cannot be applied to degree programs; however,
some adult professional colleges may consider them for credit if they have
work/study credits available. If you
have questions about CEUs or your records, please contact the ACMCA at info@acmca.info.
CEU Record Request
CEU certificates are provided at the point of completion for each class. We do not provide copies of the CEU
certificates. It is your responsibility
to maintain them for your files.
However, we may produce an official record listing of your CEUs upon
request to info@acmca.info.
Certificate Diplomas
A non-refundable one-time enrollment fee is required for each
certificate program course. Certificate
program courses are 24 CEUs or more.
Once the client has completed the certificate program, they will be
provided a CEU certificate online. This
CEU certificate is not the official
program Certificate Diploma. You must fax, or email a scanned copy of your
CEUs to the ACMCA as proof that you have completed the course so that your
official “Certificate Diploma” may be sent to you. Some certificate programs
have recommended entrance requirements; for example, it is not recommended that
you take Auditor/Analyst classes if you do not have a background in medical
coding, billing or administration. You
may take individual basic classes as appropriate to help you prepare for
advanced or higher level classes. The
ACMCA recognizes that each client background is different, which is why the
classes are designed so they may be customized to your needs. Your official Certificate Diploma will
include the contact hours of program participation, i.e., 1 CEU = 10 contact
hours.
Grading and Academic Transcripts
There are no grades or academic transcripts with continuing education
coursework. Completing the work earns
you CEUs. However, with the certificate
diploma programs (courses with 24 or more CEUs), grades are verified as
pass/fail before Certificate Diplomas are sent out to you.
You may request verification of completed CEUs in writing to info@acmca.info.
Change of Contact Information
You will want to keep your registration contact information current within the online
learning site. Any changes may be done
online through your account home page.
Equal Opportunity
The ACMCA is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to the principles
and practices outlined in applicable federal, state laws. The ACMCA does not
discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, national origin, sex, sexual
orientation, age, or mental or physical disability, or veteran’s status in any
of its employment practices or educational programs.
Liability
The ACMCA exercises great care in selecting knowledgeable and competent
instructors. The ACMCA content developers are experienced professionals and
hold multiple certifications in their fields.
However, ACMCA does not guarantee, expressed or implied, that any
classroom instruction will result in specific gain. We are not responsible for
any loss incurred while following either the content materials, or one of our
instructor’s directions. Gainful
learning is the sole responsibility of the client.
Course Fees
The number of CEUs that a course provides will determine the course fee for
each online course or program. Course fees are subject to change. Courses are
available individually, or by subscription.
Subscriptions are offered in 5 course blocks, or corporations may choose
50 or more blocks at a significant discount.
Each course is referred to as a token in the online learning site. Therefore, 1 course is worth 1 token,
regardless of the number of CEUs.
Discounts
There are subscription discounts available for any individual or organization
that wishes to purchase 5 or more courses.
The available subscriptions are:
Course Changes: Right to Cancel
For the instructor-driven courses only, the ACMCA reserves the right-at-will to
cancel a course or to change the course content or instructor. The ACMCA will
notify clients in advance as appropriate.
If a course is cancelled, a full refund will be provided to the client.
2.
Terms, Conditions and Disclosures
Agreement:
By entering the ACMCA
online learning site, the client agrees to the terms and conditions set forth
herein. ACMCA may modify these terms and
conditions at any time. By using this site after any changes to these terms and
conditions have been posted on the site, you agree to accept those changes,
whether you have reviewed them or not.
If at any time you choose not
to accept the terms and conditions of use, please do not use, or immediately discontinue use of the ACMCA online
learning site.
Restrictions on Use of Materials
The contents of the ACMCA
are protected by copyright and trademark laws, and are the property of the
ACMCA and any and all other owners. You
may access the materials located on the site only for your personal educational
use. This means you may download one copy of such materials on a single
computer for personal, noncommercial use only, so long as you neither change
nor delete any author attribution, trademark, legend or copyright notice. When
you download copyrighted material you do not obtain any ownership or other
rights in that material. ACMCA lecture
materials are for ACMCA educational proprietary, preparatory curriculum only
and are not for resale.
Except as stated
above, you may not otherwise modify, copy, publish, display, transmit, adapt or
in any way exploit the content of the ACMCA’s CEU programs without written
permission of the ACMCA. You must abide
by all additional copyright notices or other restrictions contained on the
site.
Disclaimers
The ACMCA has made a
good faith effort to ensure the quality and accuracy of the lecture
materials. The ACMCA does not guarantee
accuracy, nor does the lecture information in anyway provide legal or
consulting advice. The materials are for
the purpose of learning the processes of medical coding, billing, compliance or
other healthcare administrative functions and guidelines as stated in the
content.
The materials in the
online courses are provided to the client “as is”, and without any warranties
of any kind, either expressed or implied.
Neither the ACMCA or any of its affiliates warrant that any functions
contained in the ACMCA online learning site will be free from error, or
uninterrupted. Nevertheless, online
errors, should they occur, will be promptly addressed and corrected. Report online errors or interruption to info@acmca.info.
Neither ACMCA nor any
of its affiliates warrant or make any representations regarding the use of, or
the results of the use of the online materials.
Materials are in Word, Excel, HTML and PDF format. Clients are expected to have current
technology to view and use the ACMCA content materials online.
Limitation of Liability
Under no
circumstances, including but not limited to negligence, is the ACMCA or its
affiliates, or respective licensors be held liable for any special or
consequential damages that result from the use of or the inability to use any
materials or technologies made available on or through the ACMCA online
learning site, even if advised of the possibility of such damages. In no event shall the total liability to you
by ACMCA or any of its affiliates or any of its respective licensors for all
damages, losses and causes of action (whether in contract, tort, or otherwise)
exceed the amount paid by the client/you to ACMCA, if any, for accessing the
ACMCA online learning site. Refunds are
subject to the ACMCA refund policy, in section 4 of this document.
Disclosure
The Academy of Certified
Coding Auditors is a d/b/a of United Recovery Consultants, Inc., a consulting
company incorporated and in good standing in the State of Florida since 2003.
It is a privately held organization, dedicated to Medical Coding Preparatory
training to assist medical professionals in passing their medical coding and
auditing certification exams, as well as, providing continuing education.
3.
ACMCA Privacy Policy
The ACMCA values your
privacy. We have provided this Privacy Policy to inform you what information we
collect, how we use that information, how you can review or correct your
information, or requests its removal from our database.
Collection of Information
The ACMCA collects
only the necessary demographic information that allows you to be registered for
the classes and utilize the online learning site. We will not give, share or sell your
individual information to any outside company for its use in marketing,
solicitation or for any other reason.
Registration data is
the property of ACMCA. The ACMCA online
learning site maintains a secured area on the site for transmission of
registration data, and stores all registration data in a database that is
subject to industry standard security protection.
The ACMCA online
learning site collects only the necessary credit card information that allows
you to pay for the classes you wish to access.
The eCommerce area on the Site for Transmission of Credit Card
Transactions is subject to industry standard security protection.
Use of the ACMCA
online learning site is conditioned on your provision of requested demographic
information. If you choose not to provide such information, you may not be able
to access the online learning site. You may cancel your account at any time by
sending an email to the ACMCA at info@acmca.info. Once we have finished processing the
cancellation, the ACMCA will delete all your Registration Data from its
database, unless you request otherwise. Although, the ACMCA online learning
site will use all reasonable efforts to safeguard the confidentiality of the
Registration Data, transmissions made by means of the Internet cannot be
guaranteed to be secure. The ACMCA has no liability for disclosure of
Registration Data due to errors in transmission or unauthorized acts of third
parties.
4.
Course Withdrawal and Refund Policy
To drop a course, you must have not entered that course. Once a client enters a course they will have
access to all of the course content materials.
You must submit an official request for withdrawal to the ACMCA at info@acmca.info in order to drop a course
prior to entering it and to obtain a full refund.
Your withdrawal effective date is the date ACMCA receives your written
notification (fax, E-mail, mail) in the office.
Once we have verified you have not entered the course, we will submit
your refund request to go out to you.
Non-attendance in the course, stopping payment on a credit card or
check, or simply informing the instructor in one of the instructor-driven
courses, does not constitute an official drop request. Stopping payment on a
credit card or check will result in a financial obligation that you must then
pay, plus an additional $35 stop-payment charge and accrued interest of 18% per
annum. Please allow up to 4 weeks to
receive a refund back to the credit card with which you purchased the
course(s), or 6 weeks to receive a refund if you paid by check.