Medical Coding CPC (Certified Professional Coder) Training

Explore the cardiovascular system, detailing heart anatomy, blood flow, coronary arteries, valves, and common diseases, with ecg and chest x-ray as diagnostic tools.

learn chapter one ICD guidelines for infections, focusing on HIV coding (B20, Z21, R75), sequencing, and related versus unrelated conditions.

Master sepsis coding guidelines, including sequencing sepsis with concurrent infections or noninfectious conditions, post-procedural sepsis, MRSA guidelines, and Zika exposure coding.

Learn covid-19 guidelines for medical coding: assign icd-10-cm u07.1 for confirmed covid-19, code exposure with z20.822, and sequence covid first before related respiratory or non-respiratory conditions.

Practice CPC pattern questions for chapter two coding guidelines, focusing on primary versus secondary sites and coding primary first, then secondary, as in colon cancer metastasizing to the lung.

Learn the secondary diabetic mellitus coding guidelines: code the underlying condition first, then e08 or e09, and finally long-term drug codes for drug-induced diabetes.

Explore chapter seven ICD-10 guidelines for diseases of the eye and adnexa, focusing on glaucoma types, eye sidedness, stages, bilateral coding rules, and classifications for blindness and low vision.

Summarizes digestive diseases from K00–K95 and skin diseases from L002–L99, including colitis, GERD, appendicitis, cancers, acne, psoriasis, and pressure ulcers with staging, sites, and coding guidelines.

Explore the genitourinary disease codes N00–N99, CKD staging with GFR values, and guidelines for dialysis, transplantation, and comorbidity combo codes.

Explore chapter 16: newborn guidelines in medical coding CPC training, focusing on applying coding standards for accurate and compliant newborn coding.

Learn CPT integumentary coding for excisions of benign versus malignant lesions, calculating lesion size and margins, and coding repairs from simple to complex, including nails, lacerations, and adhesive-strips guidelines.

Learn how CPT 10004 series covers fine needle aspiration biopsy, including ultrasound-guided sampling of lesions, the use of imaging guidance, and diagnostic pathology to identify disease.

Learn the CPT 11004 debridement for soft tissue infection, detailing removal of necrotic skin, subcutaneous tissue, fat, and muscle in the external genitalia and pelvic region.

Explains acne surgery under CPT 10040, detailing extraction and suction for small skin lesions and marsupialization for larger ones, creating a drainage pocket.

Perform incision and drainage for simple abscesses, including local anesthesia, making the incision, evacuating pus, and deciding open versus closed drainage for single or multiple lesions.

Compare CPT 10080 and 10081 for incision and drainage of pilonidal cysts, outlining simple cleansing and incision versus enlarged, complicated drainage with deeper layer dissection and suturing.

Learn CPT 10120 and 10121 incision and removal of foreign body in subcutaneous tissue, comparing simple versus complicated procedures, including anesthesia, incision, forceps extraction, visualization with X-ray, and layered closure.

Learn CPT 10160 puncture aspiration of abscess, hematoma, bulla, or cyst, including cleaning, needle aspiration, and fluid withdrawal for culture when needed.

explains CPT codes 11004, 11005, and 11006 for debridement of the abdominal wall in necrotizing infection, detailing removal of necrotic tissue, bleeding control, drains, antibiotics, and saline gauze packing.

Explore CPT 11055, 11056, and 11057 for paring or cutting skin procedures. Assess lesion size, depth, and location, then remove benign callous lesions using a scalpel or spoon-shaped instrument.

Understand CPT codes 11300-11313 for shaving epidermal or dermal lesions, including location- and size-based classification and the surgeon's scalpel technique with hemostasis and infection prevention.

Learn nail anatomy and the trimming of non-dystrophic nails, and debridement of nails, with CPT codes 11719, 11720, and 11721, including handling multiple nails and cases of onychomycosis.

Explain CPT coding for avulsion of ingrown toenail nail plates (11730 with 11732 for additional nails) and evacuation of sublingual hematoma (11740), including anesthesia and bleeding control.

Explore tissue expander procedures, including insertion, replacement with implant, and removal without implant, with CPT coding guidelines for breast and non-breast applications and scenario examples.

Learn adjacent tissue transfer procedures, including primary and secondary defects and flap techniques; excision is included, and CPT codes are determined by location and defect size in square centimeters.

Code pressure ulcers by location and excision depth to bone, including coccygeal, sacral, ischial, and trochanteric ulcers; use CPT codes 15920, 15922, 15934, 15935, 15950, 15951, or 15999.

Analyze local burn treatments and CPT coding from 16000 to 16036, using burn depth and percentage of total body surface area.

Explain destruction procedures for pre malignant lesions in the integumentary system, including laser, electro surgery, cryo surgery, chemo surgery, surgical curettage, and chemical treatment, plus CPT 17000–17004 coding guidelines.

Learn how chemical cauterization of granulation tissue treats excess granulation to promote proper wound healing, using agents like silver nitrate and potassium hydroxide in integumentary procedures.

Use CPT 19499 for unlisted procedures when no specific code exists, but first request and verify provider documentation before coding.

Advance your CPC medical coding skills with musculoskeleton system content in this second installment. Develop familiarity with musculoskeleton system topics within medical coding training.

Advance cardiovascular coding proficiency through the Medical Coding CPC Training program, focusing on practical skills and accuracy in cardiovascular code assignment.

Explore CPT coding for epistaxis, distinguishing anterior and posterior nosebleeds, and applying simple versus complex treatment approaches and corresponding codes.

Explore excision of lip defects with full-thickness reconstruction using local flap (40525) or cross lip flap (40527), including the Abbe procedure and flap origins.

Learn to code lip resection more than one fourth without reconstruction using CPT 40530, typically performed to remove a tumor.

Explore CPT coding for plastic repair of cleft lip and nasal deformity, including unilateral and bilateral primary codes 40700–40702 and secondary 40720, with one-stage and two-stage repair guidance.

Master the destruction of lesions in the vestibule of the mouth using laser, cryo, chemical, or thermal methods, with CPT code 40820, and understand destruction versus excision.

Code tongue and floor of mouth incision and drainage for abscesses using CPT codes 41000–41009, based on location, depth, and intraoral versus extraoral approach.

Explore extraoral incision techniques for draining sublingual, submental, submandibular, and masticator space infections with tube drainage, and apply CPT codes 41015–41019, 41520, and related imaging and 7000 series codes.

Explore biopsy procedures on the tongue and floor of the mouth, including anterior two-thirds versus posterior one-third lesions and the CPT codes 1100, 1105, and 1108 for pathology analysis.

Explain excision procedures on the tongue and floor of the mouth, including lingual frenum frenectomy, incision versus excision, and CPT codes 41115 and 41116 for these procedures.

Review tongue and floor of mouth laceration repairs and CPT codes 41250–41252, with length-based coding and tongue anterior/posterior location.

Learn to code excision and destruction procedures in the dental alveolar region, including 41828, 41830, and 41850, with hyperplastic mucosa, alveolar ectomy, and lesion destruction using laser, cryosurgery, or electrocautery.

Learn palate and uvula anatomy and how to code incision and drainage with CPT 2000, and excision or destruction codes 42104, 42106, 42107, 42120, 42140, 42145, 42160.

Learn remaining palate and uvula procedures, including pharyngeal and island flaps to lengthen the soft palate, vomer flap repairs, nasolabial fistula repair, and palate prosthesis procedures with impressions.

Explore excision procedures for salivary glands and ducts, including biopsy by needle or incisional methods, and ranula cyst excision or marsupialization in the sublingual gland (codes 42408, 42409).

Explore nephrolithotomy procedures for kidney stones and when to append CPT codes 50060, 50065, 50070, and 50075, including staghorn calculus and primary versus secondary procedures.

Explore incision procedures on the penis, detailing newborn circumcision (54000) and non-newborn cases (54001), including clamp or plastic techniques, anesthesia, incision, skin removal, bleeding control, and suturing.

Learn how to destroy penile lesions using chemical desiccation, electrocution, cryosurgery, laser surgery, and surgical excision, and differentiate simple from extensive lesions with codes 54050-54065.

Learn how the excision of penile plaque with graft placement is performed and coded, using graft-length based codes 54110, 54111, and 54112 for Peyronie's disease.

Explore antepartum fetal invasive services and maternity care CPT codes 59012-59030, including cord blood sampling, chorionic villus sampling, ultrasound code 76941, and repeat procedures with 76/77 modifiers.

Learn antepartum and fetal invasive maternity procedures, including ultrasound-guided amniotic infusion, cord occlusion, fetal fluid drainage, shunt placement, and twin-to-twin transfusion management, with CPT codes 59050–59076.

Explore introduction procedures for maternity care and delivery, focusing on CPT 59200 for insertion of a cervical dilator (laminaria or prostaglandin) to dilate the cervix before gynecologic procedures.

Learn CPT codes 59300–59350 for maternity repairs, including episiotomy during delivery, cervix cerclage in pregnancy, and repair of a ruptured uterus, with vaginal or abdominal approaches.

Learn to code thyroidectomy procedures, including total thyroidectomy (60240), subtotal with limited neck dissection (60252), and radical neck dissection (60254) for malignancy, graves disease, and multinodular goiter.

Explore a scenario where a total thyroidectomy is performed with radical neck dissection, removing thyroid and neck structures, resulting in CPT code 60254.

Explain excision procedures for thyroglossal duct cysts in the thyroid gland, including primary cyst removal (CPT 60280), recurrent cyst excision (CPT 60281), and ultrasound guidance (CPT 76536).

Explore excision procedures for parathyroid, thymus, adrenal glands, pancreas, and carotid body, review anatomy, and master CPT codes 60500–60512, including parathyroidectomy, re-exploration, and autotransplantation.

Learn thymectomy and adrenalectomy coding, covering partial and total thymus removal with transcervical or transthoracic approaches, radical mediastinal dissection, biopsy, and bilateral reporting with modifier 50.

Explore secondary ocular implant procedures after evisceration or enucleation, including implant insertion, modification of screws, muscle attachment, graft options, reinsertion, and infection-related removal.

Code external ear procedures from CPT 69000–69090, including incision and drainage of external ear and external auditory canal abscesses, and ear piercing, with ear anatomy and depth considerations.

Learn radiology coding for the CPC exam by identifying examination type, location, views, and contrast to assign CPT codes across thoracic spine x-ray, MRI, and ultrasound scenarios.

Explore pathology and laboratory coding with cpt coding for lab tests, modifiers 90 and 91 for outside and repeated tests, and the Medicare q w modifier under the 80,000 series.

Explore integumentary CPT coding with real exam questions, including breast reconstruction with free flap via microsurgical technique and operating microscope, subcutaneous debridement, and laceration repair length-based coding.

Explore CPC exam pattern Q&A, including anatomy of chloride in the eyeball, small intestine combining form, and the electroretinography procedure.

Explore CPC exam pattern questions and answers, including surgical fixation of the urinary bladder and episiotomy. Discuss dorsiflexion, pulmonary vein, and a gastrin-related syndrome caused by abnormal hormone Gaston production.

Study medical suffixes for the CPC exam, learning how endings build complete medical terms. Review examples of inflammation, pain, and other conditions to reinforce terminology.

Explore CPC exam pattern questions and answers on key terms like hypertension, gastritis, fever as a symptom, inflammation of the small intestine, neuroplasticity, and hepatomegaly, with practice for medical coding.