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lbarbera13@gmail.com

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Midlothian, Virginia
I currently have my CPC-A. I have contacted a doctor’s office in my town that said they will allow me to work under them as a coder. Will this count toward removing my apprentice status?
 
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lbarbera13@gmail.com said:
The doctor’s office I’m working for is a specialty urologist. I’ve been told I will only be there for a month, will that still count?
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It will count for one month's worth of experience but in order to do that you have to have them fill out the form for Apprentice status removal. If you are not with the same employer for two years each employer has to fill out the form indicating how much time you spent with them and what you did there.

Heather CPC
 
Counts as one month, who know maybe you will do so well they will extend it? Worst case that's one month more experience than many other CPC-A you could be competing against for other positions.
 
lbarbera13@gmail.com said:
Heather,

I'm not actually going to be employed at this office. I'm just going in to the office for a couple of hours to get some coding experience. How would the doctor fill out the form?
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I'm not sure if the AAPC would accept something like this for a few hours of work. I thought you had mentioned in your previous posts that you would be doing it for one month. You may want to call AAPC for further guidance on this.

Heather CPC.
 
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