CCO FAQ: My AAPC Certification Exam is Scheduled… Now What?

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This is something I actually like to teach. I love to do CPC review classes with our local chapter. If you are looking at coming up upon an AAPC exam, look into your local chapter or other chapter surrounding your area and see if they offer CPC review because they really are very helpful. But this is actually something that people just don’t think about actually. They schedule, they go through their courses, they do whatever study it is to get ready for their exam and then they schedule the exam and then what’s next?

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CCO FAQ: Which Medical Coding Certification to Get?

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Coach Jennifer: Another question we had is wondering about a certification. We actually get questions quite often about certifications, what should they do next? We probably have some past webinars and ideas about this.

Q: “I am very interested in becoming a certified medical coder; however, I don’t know which certificate to study for. I have 34 years of outpatient hospital bill experience alone with some coding practice at a major hospital.”

That right there is awesome that they want to take all of that experience and get certified in that.

“I am presently retired and would like to get certified to do remote medical coding. Should I go for a CPC, COC, or CCS certification?”

A: We’re going to break down what each of those are.

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