5 Medical Coding LinkedIn Profiles You Should Be Following In the past, we’ve covered social media profiles, blogs and profiles you should be following. We’ve gone over everything from Instagram and Facebook to YouTube and Twitter. If you haven’t found a medical coding-related social media to profile by now, maybe you never will! Or, perhaps…
How MCA Online Compares To Other Options When it comes to medical coding education, many people don’t know that they haver options. Gone are the days when you’re restricted to an expensive four-year university or insufficient weekly course material. With Medical Coding Academy Online, one option stands out among the rest for medical coding and…
4 Great Resources for Keeping Up with Medical Coding News Few industries benefit from employees staying up-to-date about news and changes quite like healthcare. This is especially true for medical coding and billing, which is more important than many people realize. To be the best medical coder or biller you can be, it helps to…
2022 Medical Coding Book Updates: What To Expect The new year is upon us and that means a new round of medical coding books. Updated editions are important to maintain coding accuracy in light of ever-changing updates. The only question is, what should you expect in with the latest version of the ICD-10-CM and other…
The 2021 AAPC Salary Survey Ends Soon! Don’t look now, but it’s your chance to make your voice heard and help thousands of other medical coders and billers in the industry today. The 2021 Salary Survey, which is launched yearly by the AAPC, is open for submissions through October 25, 2021. It’s quick, easy and…
Practicode, Internships and Removing the ‘A’ Day after day, especially on medical coding forums, we keep seeing that more and more people are constantly asking if practicode is real-world experience. Before you know it, they find themselves thinking it must be since everyone else is doing it, but it isn’t. The crazy thing is every now and…
‘Is This School AAPC Accredited?’ For all the people who keep asking if a school is AAPC accredited, brace yourselves and listen up! The AAPC is not an accrediting agency. Let’s dive deeper. Is Accreditation Important? Accreditation is the process by which a governing agency (typically known as CAHIM) ensures a college or university’s instruction…
Should a School Teach From AAPC Curriculum? A question we receive frequently has to deal with teaching the American Association of Professional Coders (AAPC) curriculum. After all, since we’ve recently discovered that the AAPC doesn’t have the power to accredit medical coding schools or programs and there aren’t many benefits to partnering with them. Why…
What Does It Mean To Partner With the AAPC? When a medical coding school chooses to partner with the American Association of Professional Coders (AAPC), they’re not just buying the rights to teach from that curriculum. They’re also buying their place on the AAPC website as an “AAPC curriculum-teaching school.” Why are we bringing this…
Should a Coding School Be Licensed or Accredited? Licenses and accreditations are important. They help establish credibility with an organization (or individual) and serve as proof that the company or person has achieved mastery of a certain skill set or subject. So it makes sense that the medical coding school you choose should be accredited…