Free. Self-paced. Built for beginners.
Learn medical coding.
Prepare for the CPC.
From your first medical term to a complete patient chart. Build your knowledge, work with your code books, and practice until you can explain every choice.
THE CURRICULUM
A foundation you can build on.
Start with the language. Finish with the whole record.
How CPC works
Follow a visit from documentation to diagnosis and service codes, and learn where a coder must stop and ask.
Explore this stageMedical language and the body
Break medical words into meaningful parts, verify the definition, and recognize what the word cannot tell you.
Explore this stageHow coding works
Build a concise coding abstraction from the record, identify missing information, and distinguish diagnosis rules from service and payer requirements.
Explore this stageModifiers and coding logic
Use documented service relationships and applicable instructions to justify modifier reporting.
Explore this stageEvaluation and Management
Choose the professional E/M family and verify prior-service history before deciding new or established patient status.
Explore this stageAnesthesia
Read the anesthesia record, preserve practitioner roles and reconcile the supported service boundaries.
Explore this stageSurgery systems
Abstract the documented technique, measurements and included services before choosing an integumentary procedure.
Explore this stageRadiology
Match the actual imaging purpose, contrast route, component and treatment phase to current reporting instructions.
Explore this stagePathology and laboratory
Read the order, specimen, performed method and defined unit before selecting a laboratory service.
Explore this stageMedicine
Build an administration timeline and distinguish purpose, route, access site and reportable time.
Explore this stageCompliance and reimbursement
Separate accurate coding from benefit coverage and find the policy that applies to the service date.
Explore this stageCharts, capstone and readiness
Turn a complete record into supported diagnoses, procedures, modifiers and an explanation another coder can follow.
Explore this stageBRING YOUR BOOKS
The skill is knowing where to look.
You’ll use current, authorized CPT Professional, ICD-10-CM and HCPCS Level II books alongside the course. We teach you to read the record, find the rule, and check your answer.
New to coding? Start here.
You do not need a healthcare background. Take the lessons in order and give yourself time to practice.
Read lesson one