CPC Exam Clinical Questions

CPC Exam Clinical Questions: An attendee asks:

“I forgot to mention that I read online that there is a new component to the CPC exam starting June 2012. It is so new that a competitor of yours did not have this new clinical part on her CPC exam prep guide I was going to order. Can you tell me more about this and will you have this included on your most recent prep guide for the CPC. I will be finishing school this December 2012.”

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Actually, this was just a proposal as an alternative way to not have to use the CPC-A that apprentice aspect and they opened it up for public comment which I really respect the AAPC for doing and they got a bunch of feedback and the end result was they decided to keep things the way they were. The thought was they would give a 20 question or clinical additional exam to those who didn’t meet the experience requirement so that they could get rid of the A quicker.

But that never came to pass so it isn’t that my competition, whoever they are, doesn’t have it, it just doesn’t exist, its not necessary.

Again, I want to bring you back to the blog because there are articles on that and I’m trying to remember the search term, I think we ended up putting “apprentice” in there so type that in and you will find articles about that – I copied and pasted the email from Reed Pew,  the CEO of the AAPC and basically talked about how it was something that … eliminate the Scarlet A some people refer to it as that. So use the site, there’s lots of good information there. But that is definitely not going to be a reality.

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Laureen Jandroep

CPC, COC, CPPM, CPC-I.,Sr. Instructor for CCO.us. Laureen has over 25 years in the healthcare field. She graduated as an Occupational Therapist in 1986 and before long was running a successful therapy practice which did over 1.6 million in billing per year with a less than .06% rejection rate. Once Medicare changed how rehab companies were reimbursed this business was closed and Laureen eventually started a new company dedicated to teaching Medical Billing and Coding. Laureen has taught medical billing and coding since 1999 and currently does so through her comapny Certification Coaching Organization, LLC which does business as CCO.She resides in Florida with her husband of over 20 years Anthony and four children. They are active parents and spend most of their time these days just being parents which they love.

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