Next I am going to answer a question on compliance and regulatory questions on the cpc exam.
We had a student write: Q: Where is the information on Compliance
(and she said reimbursement but she meant regulatory) located in the CPT and ICD manuals?
How many questions on the CPC exam pertain to this area?
A: I have a little answer sheet prepared on that.
As you know, you can go to the AAPC website and any credential that you're interested in sitting for, it gives you the breakdown
of what's covered. That's always the best place to go start is who are you testing with
and what are they telling you the competencies are that they're going to test you on.
There's a section that says compliance and regulatory, and they tell you right there
there's five questions. So, out of 150 questions, there's only five. That's not very many.
If you didn't study this at all and answered all these questions wrong, you can miss 45
questions and still pass. So, the reason I say that, these are very broad categories,
you could really spend a lot of time learning these. But five questions, there are more
than five categories, they might not even ask a question on CCI Edits and you studied
for hours and hours and hours. Basically, this information is not found in
your manuals. Pretty much every other question on the CPC exam or exams like it can be found
in your manuals. If you're taking the physician practice management exam, no, those are pretty
much from your head and they tell you you can bring a calculator. You either know it
or you don't. There's no reference to look up. So, all of these CCI Edits, the NCDs
and LCDs, HIPAA, ABNs, RVUs is more just a general knowledge that people would have working
in the field. If you're brand new and you don't have that knowledge and you get it
wrong, it's not that many. But the best way to do it if you're doing
it the free method, go to the CMS website and search on those terms. Find the page on
the CMS where they talk about those things, and you can get a lot of information from
there. You can also get this information from our CPC Review Blitz. We go over all of those
content areas and hit the highlights. You can also do a Google search. That's
one of my favorite things to share on this webinar. If you go to Google and you take
a keyword and type that in and then have space and type "site:cco.us" or it could be
aapc.com or it could be cms.gov. It tells Google to only search that website for that
keyword. Let's try it, let's do this one, NCCI, I'm going to start a new tab and pop
that in up here, which is basically the same thing as putting it here and I'm going to
hit enter. You'll see that over the years doing these
webinars that we have collected quite a few clips. Here's this one from September 2017.
That wasn't too long ago. Here's another one on our FAQ page, here's another one.
So, we have a lot and a lot of these have videos. There are 6 pages on just our site
alone. So you can come up here and say, "OK, let me see what AAPC has." Just change cco.us
to aapc.com. You can see all that they have, 10 pages. You could try cms.gov. Here you
go, and they've got just 10 pages. So, that's how you can learn all of those
topics. You can make a few notes in your CPT manual if you need to. But once you learn
about it and you get it, you're like, "Oh, OK. I understand that concept now. So, that's
how to prepare for those compliance and regulatory questions. We hope that you choose to get
the CPC Blitz with us and we packaged it up and put a bow on it for you or you can do
it how I just showed you.