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Demonstrate your mastery level coding skills with ahimas highly regarded certified coding specialist ccs credential. Exam contained quite a few questions regarding apcs and drgs, which book didnt really cover so study that too, so you dont have to guess like me. Ccs exam allowable code books all candidates are required to bring the following code books to the test center. Join the mississippi health information management association on saturday, january 17, 2015, from 8. This course will guide you through the essentials of the ccs exam and will be instructed by missy vance, rhia, ccs, cpc. Certified coding specialist ccs exam preparation ninth edition. Learn what an inpatient coder is expected to know and does on the job. Even though icd10 is not a part of the ccs exam now, the exam will test using icd10 upon its official implementation for reporting and billing in the us. Registered health information administrator rhia exam prep. Because of you, i no longer look at the coding book as being bigger than me. Both the ccs and cpc exams are very long, with limited breaks, so be. Learn inpatient coding as we cover the official coding rules and guidelines and coding clinic. One downside is that they seem to be branching into two separate books, the main crush step 3 book for the clinical content, and the new crush step 3 ccs book as a primer on the ccs question system.
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