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    Wiki CPC employment

    I am having a similar problem. I finished Practicode to go from CPC-A to CPC, submitted 18 CEUs, and started listening to the AAPC podcast. (I even added these to the education section of my resume.) I've been seeking jobs since the beginning of this month, but I haven't been invited to any...
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    Wiki Why was I marked wrong? (Practicode Case ID: OPD7390)

    Thanks for the links. I found the relevant info in the second one. :)
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    Wiki Why was I marked wrong? (Practicode Case ID: OPD7390)

    The documentation: How am I supposed to know that the code for the operating microscope (69990) is bundled into codes 63051 and 63001? I didn't see this specified in the guidelines for either of these codes, or in the guidelines at the beginning of the section.
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    Wiki Why was I marked wrong? (Practicode Case ID: OPD7188)

    The documentation: How do I know that I should report 63020 instead of 63045?
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    Wiki Why was I marked wrong? (Practicode Case ID: OPD7085)

    Thanks. I just bookmarked it.
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    Wiki Why was I marked wrong? (Practicode Case ID: OPD7419)

    I just tried another case (OPD7278) and looked carefully this time at the "code also" notes, in both Codify and the code books. Apparently I was expected to code Z95.1 (presence of aortocoronary bypass graft) and Z95.5 (presence of coronary angioplasty implant and graft), despite neither of...
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    Wiki Why was I marked wrong? (Practicode Case ID: OPD7085)

    The documentation: Why is the MDM low? There was prescription drug management, combined with discussion with another provider.
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    Wiki Why was I marked wrong? (Practicode Case ID: OPD7419)

    The only diagnosis code was R55, syncope and collapse. In almost all the previous cases, whenever hypertension and smoking were reported in the current problems list (even if not in the diagnoses), I was expected to code them. But, I will pay more attention to the "code also" notes from now...
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    Wiki Why was I marked wrong? (Practicode Case ID: OPD7419)

    But the social history says that the patient is a current smoker. Also, there were other Practicode cases in which I was supposed to code nicotine dependence (cigarettes) when the case didn't specify what substance was being smoked, or even that there was a dependence.
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    Wiki Why was I marked wrong? (Practicode Case ID: OPD7287)

    The documentation: Why are I49.3, I25.10, and Z95.5 reported but not the Plavix and aspirin? Are the former relevant to the patient's Metroprolol increase and the need for an echo, but not the latter?
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    Wiki Why was I marked wrong? (Practicode Case ID: OPD7419)

    The documentation: Why aren't the hypertension and smoking reported?
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    Wiki Why was I marked wrong? (Practicode Case ID: OPD7512)

    The documentation: Why aren't the risk factors of "hypertension, oral hypoglycemic-treated diabetes, alcohol abuse, and a history of current cigarette use (within the last month)" reported?
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    Wiki Why was I marked wrong? (Practicode Case ID: OPD7420)

    Thanks. It seems that the reporting physician is different from the one who signed the radiology report. I was not expecting that.
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    Wiki Why was I marked wrong? (Practicode Case ID: OPD7420)

    The relevant documentation: Why isn't the CT scan reported?
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    Wiki Why was I marked wrong? (Practicode Case ID: OPD7424)

    The relevant documentation: Why isn't the chest X-ray coded? Shouldn't "The X-rays were interpreted by the radiologist and contemporaneously by me" indicate that it should also be coded for the physician reporting it here?
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