Can any of you with any knowledge of this drop me an email??

Can any of you with any knowledge of this drop me an email?? A young
woman I know just mentioned she was going to start a course (not
enrolled yet). She's bright but I told her to be wary so I'm going to
talk to her a bit about it. Not sure what the course is just yet, but
it's a local. She wants to get a job at the local medical center
eventually. I'm imagining that a lot of the local schools may be the
same as they are for MT - not substantial enough - but I want to at
least arm her with questions to ask before she signs on any dotted
lines.

Thanks


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RaeMorrill

Hi Rae,

I sent you an email. I recently saw a post that a student at Andrews passed
both the CPC and CCS exams in the same week (or there abouts), which is not
often done. If the local school does not offer national certification after
the course, I would recommend she reconsider and pursue a course that does.

Carol

"RaeMorrill" <RaeMorrill.2ksufe@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:RaeMorrill.2ksufe@nospam.com...

Can any of you with any knowledge of this drop me an email?? A young
woman I know just mentioned she was going to start a course (not
enrolled yet). She's bright but I told her to be wary so I'm going to
talk to her a bit about it. Not sure what the course is just yet, but
it's a local. She wants to get a job at the local medical center
eventually. I'm imagining that a lot of the local schools may be the
same as they are for MT - not substantial enough - but I want to at
least arm her with questions to ask before she signs on any dotted
lines.

Thanks


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RaeMorrill

Would you mind terribly posting that information here, Moon? My aunt
just happened to ask if I knew of any good coding/billing schools, and
I mentioned Andrews, but I did not know how good their coding/billing
courses were.


Moon wrote:
Hi Rae,

I sent you an email. I recently saw a post that a student at Andrews
passed
both the CPC and CCS exams in the same week (or there abouts), which is
not
often done. If the local school does not offer national certification
after
the course, I would recommend she reconsider and pursue a course that
does.

Carol

"RaeMorrill" <RaeMorrill.2ksufe@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:RaeMorrill.2ksufe@nospam.com...

Can any of you with any knowledge of this drop me an email?? A young
woman I know just mentioned she was going to start a course (not
enrolled yet). She's bright but I told her to be wary so I'm going to
talk to her a bit about it. Not sure what the course is just yet, but
it's a local. She wants to get a job at the local medical center
eventually. I'm imagining that a lot of the local schools may be the
same as they are for MT - not substantial enough - but I want to at
least arm her with questions to ask before she signs on any dotted
lines.

Thanks


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RaeMorrill

Rae, I resent the email, but copied it here except for the last sentence :)

Your friend needs to know the difference between coding and billing.  Coding
is the assignment of codes to bill for a service.  Billing is more of a job
of data entry of those codes and knowing what this or that insurance will
pay for and resolving account balances.

If your friend wants to work inpatient, she needs to go for the inpatient
certification either through AAPC or AHIMA.  There are different
certifications for the inpatient coding versus outpatient coding.  Andrews
offers the opportunity to get certification through both organizations, and
I trust Linda, so I would recommend that school.  Certification is
expensive.  Figure about $1500 for either certification.  You need (I think)
24 CEUs a year to maintain certification, which means a lot of seminars and
studying and that can be expensive unless she is in an area with an active
local chapter.

I went through AAPC - it was the original organization to certify coders and
has the most members, but is only now being recognized as an equal to AHIMA
even though the courses and tests are almost identical.  It was a 16-week
course with a proctored exam.  I'm glad I attended class in person because
there are a lot of things you could get tripped up over if you do the home
course and don't have anyone to ask.

Carol

p.s.  I would recommend anyone offering an on-site AAPC certification as
their instructors need to be teacher certified to get the instruction
manuals for the course, and it is quite costly.  I have yet to meet anyone
who was less than honest in the AAPC organization.  I haven't had any
dealings with AHIMA folks, so I can't speak one way or another about their
instructors or program.

Carol"Chris" <chrissype...@aol.com> wrote in messagenews:1169513556.317770.288530@a75g2000cwd.googlegroups.com...



Would you mind terribly posting that information here, Moon? My aunt
just happened to ask if I knew of any good coding/billing schools, and
I mentioned Andrews, but I did not know how good their coding/billing
courses were.

Moon wrote:
Hi Rae,

I sent you an email.  I recently saw a post that a student at Andrews
passed
both the CPC and CCS exams in the same week (or there abouts), which is
not
often done.  If the local school does not offer national certification
after
the course, I would recommend she reconsider and pursue a course that
does.

Carol

"RaeMorrill" <RaeMorrill.2ks...@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:RaeMorrill.2ksufe@nospam.com...

Can any of you with any knowledge of this drop me an email?? A young
woman I know just mentioned she was going to start a course (not
enrolled yet). She's bright but I told her to be wary so I'm going to
talk to her a bit about it. Not sure what the course is just yet, but
it's a local. She wants to get a job at the local medical center
eventually. I'm imagining that a lot of the local schools may be the
same as they are for MT - not substantial enough - but I want to at
least arm her with questions to ask before she signs on any dotted
lines.

Thanks

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Certification is
expensive. Figure about $1500 for either certification.

Certification is
expensive. Figure about $1500 for either certification.

Yikes! Is that $1500 just for the exam?

Gisele


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Gisele