If you’ve always wanted to be a writer, here’s your chance. AAPC’s Healthcare Business Monthly provides an opportunity to be published in a national medical coding magazine. It looks great on your resume and your expertise will be recognized, which builds your credibility in the medical coding industry. By sharing and giving back what you’ve learned, you help other like-minded healthcare professionals.
If you hold an AAPC credential, you’ll earn 1 continuing education unit (CEU) for every 700 words published.
If you are interested, here are the kinds of articles Healthcare Business Monthly magazine is looking for?
Clinical and medical coding expertise:
Conditions, treatments, and how to code it
Procedures and how to code it
Good documentation to get bills paid
Coding guidance in a particular specialty
Solutions to coding challenges
Yearly coding changes
Ways to overcome denials in your specialty
Practice management articles:
Ways to improve your revenue cycle
ACA, quality initiatives, MACRA expertise or if you know someone implementing MACRA
How to pass the coding exam, find a job, network, positive member experiences
Feel-good AAPC member and coding stories
What we ask of you:
We ask that you supply your article as a Word document, include a 50-word author bio about your career, a headshot, and 1-3 Test Yourself questions (they count towards your CEU total for writing the article). These will go online.
To get started on becoming published, go to the “Contributing to Healthcare Business Monthly” page on the AAPC website.
Michelle A. Dick, BS, provides writing and editorial expertise to clients. She is a freelance proofreader for Partners & Napier’s Vine Creative Studios and the owner of My Garden Gal, a garden maintenance and landscaping business. Prior to becoming a free agent, Dick was an executive editor for AAPC.
Michelle A. Dick, BS, provides writing and editorial expertise to clients. She is a freelance proofreader for Partners & Napier’s Vine Creative Studios and the owner of My Garden Gal, a garden maintenance and landscaping business. Prior to becoming a free agent, Dick was an executive editor for AAPC.
We are looking for thought leaders to contribute content to AAPC’s Knowledge Center.
As a contributor you will produce quality content for the business of healthcare, taking the Knowledge Center forward with your knowhow and expertise. Earn CEUs and the respect of your peers.