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The question was, “How do we code for vaccines that have lots of different components in them?” Pentacel is a great example of this. Pentacel is a vaccine used to improve immunity against diphtheria, haemophilus influenzae type B, pertussis, polio, …
The Medical Coding Case: A 4-year-old is brought into the ED crying. He cannot bend his left arm after his older sister pulled it. The physician performs an X-ray and it shows the patient has a dislocated nursemaid’s elbow. The …
We had some questions from students regarding hypertension. They were confused about hypertension and CKD (Chronic Kidney Disease), and hypertension and heart disease. We talk extensively about this in the PBC Course so that is where we are going to …
In this article, we’re going to go over three (3) example cases and assign them the sequela and late effect. As a reminder, a sequela is the residual effect (condition produced) after the acute phase of an illness or injury …
Let’s talk about the “DM” code. This is going to be the basis of most of your training for diagnosis codes. You’re going to convert everything. Almost every example to be given out of your diagnosis code are in diabetes. …
Did you recently receive your 2020 CPT Manual with yellow dots all over it? Was it a misprint? Did you maybe receive a bad copy of your CPT Manual?
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?
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.