The “Get Certified” category identified resources for those that have some medical coding experience or education and are now preparing for a coding certification board exam.
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.
CCO Education Director and Coach Alicia Scott, CPC, CPC-I, CRC One of the things we’ve learned here at Certification Coaching Organization (CCO) and also in the years that I’ve worked in medical coding is that people who want to get …
This is our slides, we have so many, where we like to give a shout-out to those who have passed any credentials, finished their medical coding courses. We’ll go through these names real quick, and if you’ve recently graduated and …
Healthcare providers will start using ICD-10 instead of ICD-9 codes on October 1, 2015 (that is less than 3 months from now). ICD-10 expands on ICD-9 codes to reflect advances in medicine, which means that using ICD-10 codes will allow …
Alicia: Now, we also have the auditing course, let me tell you about that and then Laureen can tell you about Tammy the instructor. It already started, our auditing course, and that is to prepare you for the CPMA credential. …
Alicia: CCO Congratulations to Recent Graduates! Now, we get to go into a really fun part of the webinar and it’s where we recap the people that have recently passed or completed the course. So, first we’ve got, Helen Glinski …
Laureen: This is where we get to do our congratulations, and I think Alicia you’re going to start with the first slide? Boyd: While we go through this, if you have recently got your own certification that is not on …
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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?
