Master Medical Coding: Ultimate CPC Exam Training (2025)

Explore updated medical terminology through CPC exam style questions, defining terms from escharotomy and angioplasty to peritonitis and hyperkalemia, with emphasis on anatomy and procedures.

Explore updated anatomy and surgery coding guidelines for the CPC exam, covering CPT sections, hyphen ranges, punctuation, indented and add-on codes, and HIPAA and ICD-10-CM relevance.

Master anesthesia CPC exam concepts, including classifications (general, regional, monitored anesthesia care) and CPT/HCPCS modifiers, with practice questions on mediastinoscopy, tubal ligation, cesarean hysterectomy.

Explore CPT and HCPCS modifiers, including two-digit codes, with practical examples from 22 through 99 to accurately code procedures, anesthesia, and postoperative care.

Explore CPC modifier concepts through practice questions, covering 62 for two surgeons, 79 for unrelated post-operative procedures, 57 for decision for surgery, 52 reduce service, and 23 unusual anesthesia.

Master medical coding concepts by answering CPC exam questions on correct modifiers, including 22, 51, 50, 80, 66, 32, and 47, plus postoperative and surgical team scenarios.

Explore HCPCS level two, the alphanumeric coding system used to report supplies, equipment, and services not in CPT, maintained by CMS, with national, temporary, and modifier codes for Medicare billing.

Explore level two hcpcs questions with code interpretations for replacement batteries, lancets, diabetic footwear, parenteral nutrition, nebulizers, spinal infusion pumps, wheelchair accessories, and barium enema colorectal cancer screening.

This HCPCS level II coding walkthrough uses questions to identify correct assignments for screenings, diabetes self-management training, insulin pump supplies, orthotics, casts, chemotherapy agents, dermal matrices, and corneal tissue.

Explore ICD-10-CM guidelines and the two-volume tabular list and index, showing alphanumeric codes across 21 chapters for diseases and injuries, with conventions such as code first and underlying causes.

Explore ICD-10-CM conventions, including instructional notes, code first guidelines, use of additional codes, exclude and include notes, and proper sequencing with examples.

Learn about ICD conventions with the x placeholder for empty digits, how to sequence etiology and manifestation, and guidelines for acute versus chronic, signs and symptoms, and late effects.

Explore chapter-specific ICD guidelines for infectious diseases, focusing on HIV-related coding, two-code rules for organism and condition, and sepsis, severe sepsis, and septic shock with example sequences.

Explore ICD guidelines for neoplasms (chapters 2 and 3), covering primary and secondary sites, metastasis sequencing, treatment-driven coding, and exceptions like anemia related to neoplasm.

Learn ICD guidelines chapters 4–7, including diabetes mellitus coding with manifestations and insulin use, pump failure, secondary diabetes; and mental health, nervous system, and glaucoma coding rules.

Learn ICD-10-CM guidelines for chapters 8–22, including hypertension and myocardial infarction coding, pressure ulcers, pregnancy codes, signs and symptoms rules, external causes, and seven-character extension codes for pathological fractures.

Explains ICD-10-CM diagnosis questions by analyzing coding scenarios, including malignant liver neoplasm with alcohol use and hepatitis C, nasal cavity cancer, thyroid cancer with chemotherapy adverse effects, and more.

Explore ICD-10 coding concepts and CPC exam explanations, covering tobacco-related codes, smoking cessation medications, nicotine dependence, acute pain codes, stoma recurrence, and perforated tympanic membrane.

Explore icd coding questions and explanations for cpc exam, featuring cases on otitis externa, hypertensive heart disease with heart failure, ischemic cardiomyopathy, influenza, gangrene, kidney stones, and shoulder subluxation.

Explore practice ICD-10-CM questions with explanations on neonatal feeding difficulties, esophageal fistula coding, vehicle crash injuries, the ICD-10-CM placeholder extender X, and secondary diabetes caused by another condition.

Master medical coding: ultimate CPC exam training outlines evaluation and management guidelines, including new versus established patients, initial versus subsequent services, and medical decision making levels.

Explore evaluation and management theory across new and established patient office visits, hospital observation and inpatient care, consultations, emergency department, critical care, and nursing facility services, with time-based coding guidelines.

Explore evaluation and management coding concepts, differentiating new versus established home or residence visits, time thresholds, prolonged and standby services, preventive medicine, counseling, and care management codes.

Master medical coding: ultimate CPC exam training explains evaluation and management questions and answers with real cases, covering new and established patients, various settings, and MDM levels.

Explore anesthesia guidelines, covering time reporting from induction to postoperative supervision, six physical status modifiers (P1–P6), and qualifying circumstances add-ons like 99100 and 99140.

This lecture explains anesthesia CPT coding through sample questions, applying modifiers (P1–P3, P2 for mild disease), add-on codes (91100), and monitored anesthesia care scenarios.

Demonstrate anesthesia coding with modifiers QQ and QX, add-ons like 64417, and codes for thoracotomy 00540, carpal tunnel 01810, thyroid biopsy 00322, and neuraxial labor and cesarean codes 01967-01969.

Learn skin anatomy, including the epidermis, dermis, and subcutaneous tissue with glands, and master coding for fine needle aspiration biopsies using imaging guidance, plus incision and drainage procedures.

Master debridement and biopsy coding by depth and surface area, using codes from the 11000 series and biopsy codes (11102-11107) for skin, subcutaneous tissue, muscle, fascia, and bone.

Master medical coding: shaving and excision guidelines cover partial-thickness shaving versus full-thickness excision, area- and size-based CPT codes for benign and malignant skin lesions.

Learn to differentiate simple, intermediate, and complex wound repairs, select appropriate coding by anatomical site and size, and apply adjacent tissue transfer guidelines for CPC exam readiness.

Explore skin replacement surgery, including autografts, allografts, and xenografts, plus tissue cultured autografts and skin substitute grafts, with CPT coding guidelines for preparation and graft placement.

Describe destruction as ablation of benign to malignant tissue using electrosurgery, cryosurgery, laser, or chemical methods, and outline Mohs micrographic surgery guidance with codes 17311–17315 for stages and blocks.

The lecture explains CPT coding for the integumentary system through sample questions covering puncture aspiration, debridement, foreign body removal, excisions, cryosurgery, tissue transfer, and wound repair.

Learn the musculoskeletal system anatomy from skull bones to vertebrae, and master coding guidelines for wound exploration, trigger point injections, and two-surgeon spine cases using CPT codes.

Learn arthrodesis coding across thoracic, lumbar, and cervical regions, with anterior and posterior approaches, interbody techniques, discectomy, decompression, and related add-on and guideline codes.

Discover musculoskeletal cpt coding through sample questions on trigger point injections, spine manipulation with anesthesia, and posterior instrumentation, with guidance on tumor excision, palatal lift prosthesis, and imaging-guided injections.

Explore CPT coding explanations for open treatment, prosthetic replacement, tendon transfer, endoscopic procedures, and percutaneous fixation across various fractures and bunion corrections.

Explore respiratory system anatomy and essential CPC coding guidelines for nasal procedures, including incision, drainage, biopsy, nasal polyps excision, rhinoplasty, turbinate surgery, and endoscopy modifiers.

Master medical coding teaches respiratory system procedures, from laryngectomy and laryngoscopy to bronchoscopy, thoracotomy, lung resections, and percutaneous biopsies, with imaging guidance and critical coding guidelines.

Explore the anatomy of the cardiovascular system, including heart chambers and valves, and learn CPT coding guidelines for heart procedures such as pacemakers, valve surgeries, and bypass grafts.

Master how to differentiate central and peripheral venous access device insertions by tunneled versus non-tunneled, age under or over five, and subcutaneous port or pump options.

Learn to apply respiratory and cardiovascular CPT coding through detailed nasal and sinus endoscopy scenarios, bilateral vs unilateral reporting, polypectomy and debridement, balloon dilation, maxillary sinus procedures, and tube thoracostomy.

Explore CPC-level medical coding through a series of focused Q&As on ultrasound-guided thoracentesis, pacemaker procedures, thoracoscopy, and transcatheter valve replacement with bypass considerations.