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Q. This one is for me. CPC exam and other stuff. This student says, "I'm currently studying for the CPC. Is there any advice about other stuff that is required to know like the business of medicine, OIG work plan, RVUs? I can grasp everything else, but for some reason, those sections are meant to block any advice."

A. Yeah, in our Physician-Based Medical Coding Course Chapter 1 it covers these topics and you'll also find it in the AAPC CPC Study Guide. They have on the AAPC website -- we'll just go there first to show you what I'm looking at. When you go under Certification and then CPC and you scroll down... actually the first tab here. It tells you the areas, the topics that they test you on. We'll there's one here Practice Management, that's kind of a generic catch-all category. There're about 9 to 10 questions out of the 150 questions on it. Those are some of the things that she mentioned in her question that will be on it.

So, I basically went through Chapter 1 of the textbook which is the AAPC's textbook for Physician-Based Coding. They have Types of Payers, so they feel it's important for you to understand the difference between government payers like Medicare and Medicaid and private payers. It goes into talking about the Medical Record and what does an E/M note look like? They discuss the SOAP format -- Subjective, Objective, Assessment, Plan. Then they talk about Operative Report documentation. So, anything on these general topics could be in that section on the board exam.

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