American Health Institute

AHI Medical Assistant (MA) Program

This is one of the fastest growing allied health careers in the United States. Medical Assistants perform administrative and clinical tasks within medical offices to assist physicians, podiatrists, chiropractors, and other health practitioners and keep their offices running smoothly. Duties of the Medical Assistant vary, depending upon the specialty and the size of the practice. Administrative duties for Medical Assistants include patient correspondence, completion of insurance forms, filing of medical records, answering telephones, scheduling appointments, and arranging for hospital admission, laboratory services, billing, coding and bookkeeping.  This field is expected to grow as advances in medicine expand and the population grows and ages. In fact, this is anticipated to be the fastest growing health care job through 2014.
Placement: For the 2009-2010 school year American Health Institute had 100% placement was reported for this program.
As reported in our catalog, you may see the following:
For jobs outlook and pay scale please see this website: http://www.bls.gov.

For Job description and SOC codes this website: http://online.onetcenter.org/crosswalk/

Medical Assistant is a 53.5 weeks program, the Total Program Cost, tuition books and supplies is $ 13,150.00. AHI does not provide Room and Board.