CCO has established a four step proven process. That's a blueprint to get you started in
Achieving a credential hi, this is Alicia with CCO. I'm the educational director and through the years
I've talked to a lot of people wanting to get certified. It doesn't matter which credential you're looking at
This blueprint is going to get you there. The proven process is going to help you with the cpt or
one of the other
credentials that you're looking for
One of the things I've learned in the years that I've worked in medical coding is that people who want to get certified
Struggle with education and passing the exam. The exam itself is not necessarily easy
It's easy
if you have your goals in place and you've done studying or you've even if you've had experience in the past with
Coding you still might not pass the exam
because you can be as knowledgeable as
the best coder but you got to take that exam and
So here at CCO we came up with an excellent proven process
to help you 1 learn the material that you need to be a fabulous coder and
As well the tips that you need to pass that exam
Now we have people that again our coders that haven't ever been certified
I that was what I had. I was a coder. I've never been certified
I jumped in took the exam and guess what? I didn't pass
It's not uncommon to not pass the first time. So don't let that intimidate you but our goal at CCO is
That you do pass the cert the first time
one of the brilliant things about a lot of these exams that you're going to take getting ready for the big exam for the
Credential is that you're going to get lots of practice?
So let me go through the CCOs proven process that's going to make this easy for you
The first thing you need to do is step one
You need to actually understand the core material now two parts to this one
you could already be doing coding, but you could be in a niche market of coding and the
standard
CPC exam
For coders is going to be over
everything in the CPT and ICD and hickspicks
manuals
So it's important that you have a very broad-based
Education first
And with CCO, that's the first step take the education you need now again
We want you to come to CCO
But if you've already gone to another organization and you've gotten your training we can pick up from there
alright, so the first step in
role in a course or have enrolled in a course that's going to give you the
knowledge base that you need to get the credential what we do at CCO is
When we get a new student we set up a welcome call with them. That way we can have goals set in place
This is what you want to achieve. This is how you're going to achieve it and this is what we're going to do as CCO
To help you along the way
Also, we give you an active coach that means every seven to ten days or however often
Beyond that that you want if you say no every two weeks or three weeks is fine. We're going to have somebody available
that is also a coder that's experienced that can answer your questions that
You can send an email to and say hey I stumbled on Chapter five on number six
I read the rationale, but it's not clicking with me. What do I need to do?
And then with that communication via email with your coach they can say hey
That is a very typical question that people
Stumble with this is what you need to look at or this is where you need to go
Look at this YouTube video we did and I think it will unpack the situation for you
So you have an active code which is it's going to help you along the way or that coach is going to check in with
You and say you know what?
You've been doing great. You've been knocking out a chapter every week
But it's been a couple weeks and you haven't done anything is everything. Okay, and that way you can say no
I've been really busy the kids are active or this is going on in my life. No problem
I'll check back with you next week
so again
They keep you on track keep you on goal and they want to make sure that you complete the course often
with the students both CCO and when
You teach at a college
You find that some
People just kind of get stalled out life
Happens and you need somebody there in your corner coaching you along saying hey, you are more than halfway through
You can get this done
You just have a few more chapters to do and guess what these chapters are really easy
You're going to find that you're going to get through them quickly. Now. Let's work on the next step
And and so that Coach is kind of like a someone to prod you to keep it going where you need to go
So that you don't fall back that happens a lot with online courses if they just give you the material and say here you go
you know, you need somebody that can be your
Advocate that will stand on your shoulder and whisper in your ear and tell you hey, you know
You've got three more chapters to do. Let's go
Step two with CCO is we like to refine refresh and review your skills now?
Let's say that you've already taken a course, but you want to still work with CCO and our proven process
That's where this step you get to skip step one and jump into step two
This is where the fun happens to be
Because this is where you know what you need to know to pass the exam
But there's a little more to that we have to make sure that you are prepared to go in and take this exam
It's not going to be a board exam
Like the nursing exam because it's not state to say and some people call it say, oh, I gotta go take my State Board
It's not like that
however
It is similar in that you are testing for
credential and right now
This is almost a six hour exam that you're going to be sitting for
Sitting in a chair for six hours with hours with your manuals and everything in front of you and that's intimidating
So you need tools to make sure you can get through that and our step 2 of our proven process handles that
one of the thing that we're going to do is give you
fabulous blitz reviews
We're going to show you how to have those key concepts that we know you're going to be tested on leap off the page
So when you read that question, you know
This is what they want to know if I know and I do know it and then you can answer that question with
Authority. We're also going to learn time management skills
and this is one of the problems that I had when I took the CPC exam for the first time I
went in thinking that I knew how to code which I did and
Sat down and I ran out of time. I had 15 minutes left and almost 30 questions
And so I panicked and of course since I was running out of time I had to fill in and guess
Which was really difficult when you know the content right, but you don't have time to read the content
And so therefore I went and sought some help on my time management for the exam
CCO provides that for you and other little tips like how to skip when you don't know the
Answer how to make sure that you're doing 30 questions in an hour
Keep yourself paced so that you can use all those little gray cells to focus on
The questions and getting the right answer not being panic and having to think about how much time do I have left?
there's so much more to it than that and you'll find that when you talk to your coach and the proven process or you get
one of our blitz programs
The other thing is with the cpt or anything that you're dealing with the cpt manual
We teach you how to bubble and highlights. We teach you a bat
technique is what we call it bubble highlight and annotate your
Manuals to get them ready to test and what that's going to do is that's going to allow
The the codes and the guidelines to leap off of the page for you, so you're not
Relooking at a page two or three times trying to find the best codes
it's the code that's going to get you to the highest specificity and
Quickly, that's what they want to know
You know anybody can code quite honestly, it's like looking up and telephone number in a telephone book
but the guidelines is what you have to know and the guidelines are what you're going to be bubbling highlighting and
Understanding with the Blitz that comes in step two
So we're going to be marking up our manuals showing you how not to over mark your manuals because that defeats the purpose
But just making annotations and notes so that you can get to the highest specificity quickly
We have a lot of credentials that we help you with and this technique works with all of them
Next after you've gone through step two you're ready for step three. Now. I said SEP to was where the fun begins
I think that is true that that's the fun part because you know what you're doing and you're getting your manuals ready?
but the
intimidating part the one where you need your coach to hold your hand and walk through and and you need your cheerleaders behind you is
when you start taking practice exams, you need to take as many practice exams as you can get your hands on and
We at CCO offer you several we have free
Practice exams for almost every credential that we teach and in addition we have paid practice exams
but if you're one of our students say for our PBC course that helps you learn the
cpt
Credential you'll find that included in your course is several practice exams
Now these practice exams aren't necessarily going to be the hundred and fifty questions that you are going to have on the real
Exam when you sit down to take the credential exam
We've divided it up to where you can do this in an hour or a couple hours and then you can get a feel
For what? It's like to sit down for one of these questions
It also gives you amazing rationales. We've worked extremely hard to make sure that our
rationales are meaty, and that they give you the right and the wrong answers you picked a but that is wrong because
And B is the right answer do two. We want to make sure you see the whole picture
so we're very proud of the rationales that come with our practice exams and
Thankfully we've gotten a lot of feedback that we do this very very well
So again get practice exams wherever you can get at your hands on them
but if you're one of our students and you go through our proven process
We're going to make sure you have a lot of practice exams and you want to be getting 80 to 85% on these practice exams
Before you sit for the exam that's part of our proven process as well
So we help you become
Educated in what you need to know to take the credential
We also give you a coach and hold your hand through the process
If you need it now mind you we've got students that do it all on their own
they don't need a lot of help and we have students that have a lot of questions and it doesn't matter with whether you
Have no experience in the medical field or you have a lot of medical experience
In you're a clinician already in RN and LPN, or maybe in the therapies or an MA
Again, it doesn't matter because all of our proven process works globally for each of you next
After step three, you are finally ready to set for that exam
You've gone through every one of the steps you're going to be nervous cuz again, this is a big deal
This is not an easy exam. And if anybody tells you it is they are not telling you the truth. It's intimidating, but you
go you're going in with open eyes, you know what to expect and
You've got the training behind you that you can sit down with confidence and tackle that and the goal is to pass the first time
So we want you to take and pass the exam
we want you also to maintain your knowledge and that is part of our
Step for the proven process you've passed that exam and now you need to maintain CEUs
see
he uses continuing education credits or units that all
Professionals have to have whether you're a school teacher a fire fire whether you're a judge a lawyer a doctor
It doesn't matter if you're a professional you have to maintain
something called
CEUs and
we have polished and
perfected our
CEUs we have over a hundred
CEUs in our CCO Club that goes along with our students as part of our proven process
So we want to educate you. We want to get you ready to take the exam
we want to have you take the exam and pass and then we want you coming back to us to maintain your
Knowledge of what you need to know to get to the next level to master coding
Maybe you want to easily also jump into another niche area like cardiology oncology something like that
You can do that through these CEUs. You may want to just pick up a couple CEUs and say is is
Cardiology one. I want to try grab a CEA couple CEUs watch an excellent video lecture that's applicable to the subject
hot dog
Exciting and relevant to what you're working in take a quick quiz at the end
Capture those CES and you can say yes
Cardiology is exciting. That's what I want to get some more education tune in and pick up a credential in that so
moving on with that
The last thing we do in our proven process is we include video lectures all the time
We have several a week that we do and that a lot of these are
free to the public, you know
You'll see them on our Facebook page on our YouTube channel, and please like and subscribe those that way you'll know about what's happening
But we also have a monthly Q&A webinar where people have sent in questions
That they have that's relevant to their working environment
As well as new students people that are just interested in the coding world, and we answer those questions live for you
we bring up an
Answer sheet so that you can go back and reference it then we transcribe that and we send that to you
Not only is that worth CEUs, but it's a great way to get questions answered that you might have
Above and beyond all of this
We have a way for you to check in with us and ask your questions
Call us and set up an appointment
If this is something you think you're interested you can use this number that you're seeing on the screen
Call set up an appointment with myself or one of the other
CCO members will answer your questions or
Send an email to help desk at CCO us and they'll make sure that you talk to the right person
Let's find out where you are in this journey
If you have no medical experience
Then what do you need to need to get started?
If you're already a coder and you want a specialty credential we can help you with that
Or maybe you're a clinician and you're just tired of being on your feet anymore
And you want to start working remote so that you can do some traveling with your spouse then again
We're here to help and we'll be able to help you with the proven process that CCO
Has come up with that has been shown to work for people in all areas of medical coding
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