• If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ & read the forum rules. To view all forums, post or create a new thread, you must be an AAPC Member. If you are a member and have already registered for member area and forum access, you can log in by clicking here. If you've forgotten the password it can be reset on our sign in section by entering your registered Email Address or Username here. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below..

Wiki Big misconception

Create Wiki
U

utgirl

Guest
Messages
33
Location
Macon, Georgia
Best answers
0
I have went to employers and when they see AAPC or American Academy of Professional Coders, they ask me " What the heck is AAPC, I have never heard of such a place!" Can you belive that these people do not know this or are they just ready stupid?!
 
I can believe they really don't know.

Reading some of the job postings for coders I crack up. I think my favorite is when they require you have a CPC-P, which they define as certified profesional coder for physicians. Which we all know is not what the P stands for in that credential.

I had a coding consulting company send me information that they only higher CPCs (certified physician coders). This was a company trying to get coding business from us. I lost a lot of faith in their abilities based on the fact they didn't even know what the credential actually means.

So I can certainly believe employers really don't know.

Laura, CPC, CEMC
 
CPC-P is NOT an AHIMA credential. It is an AAPC credential.

CCS-P, however, is an AHIMA credential.

AHIMA is predominently facility-based coding, most employers such as hospitals or other facilities do require AHIMA credentials due to the setting.

AAPC is outpatient facility and physician focused.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top