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All About Medical Auditing If you think all medical coding jobs are the same, think again. Becoming a Certified Professional Coder (CPC®) is just the first step in your medical billing and coding journey. The next step? Choosing an additional certification to hone your craft and develop your specialty so you can increase your earning…
5 New Year’s Resolutions for Medical Coders and Billers When the New Year comes along, many people use it as an opportunity to lose weight or eat better. Others try and kick a bad habit, like smoking. Still others try and get their finances on track. While these are all well and good, they don’t…
The Importance of a Specialty Medical Coding Credential All industries have specialists. In the medical industry, for example, you have general doctors who address a wide variety of issues, but you also have those who specialize in feet, hands, the spine and more. Medical coding is no different. While you can get your medical coding…
The Importance of an Outpatient Medical Coder Credential (COC) Outpatient Medical Coders are among the highest demand in the medical industry. Why? Since physicians often leave their private practice to join hospital groups, they need someone to handle the medical coding and billing at their new location. That’s where an Outpatient Medical Coder credential (COC®)…
Don’t look now, but at Medical Coding Academy, we’re already thinking about next year… and you should too. Our 2020 schedule is out! That’s right, we have all sorts of medical coding and billing courses now on the calendar, such as: Certified Professional Coder (CPC) Medical Risk Adjuster (CRC) Hospital Outpatient Exam Prep (COC) Medical Auditor Exam Prep…
The shift toward providing more specific and complete documentation of all medical problems on an annual basis is a challenge for many practices. This is particularly problematic in the outpatient setting, which typically has less administrative infrastructure to support adequate coding. However, aligning current payment-focused billing and documentation practices with evolving risk-adjustment-focused coding practices will…
They say you learn something new every day. This is true for everything from complex information about a topic that’s not in your field of study to obscure facts about your favorite TV show. Human beings are constantly searching for knowledge. The same concept applies to Medical Coding Academy Online. If you know any of…
In case you haven’t noticed (or you’ve been living under a rock for the past couple of months), you can now learn medical coding and billing online thanks to the launch of our new Medical Coding Academy Online. Now that this revolutionary new educational resource has been available for a bit, we’re starting to receive…
We all have different banes of our existence. For dogs, it’s the postman. For Batman, it’s the Joker. For Michael Scott from The Office, it’s Toby. You get the idea. For many medical coding students, the bane of their existence is Evaluation & Management, also known as E&M. Let’s take a look at what E&M…
We live in a day where people demand instant gratification and convenience. We get annoyed if our fast-food order takes longer than five minutes, we are outraged when the Internet goes down for an hour and we don’t know what to do with ourselves when we’re without our phones for an extended period of time.…