Wiki CPC Exam and 2012 CPT Coding Manual

[joshuatng]

Hi all, I recently took my CPC exam and unfortunately I failed with a 66% using a 2011 CPT coding manual. Question I have is I noticed there was for sure 1 question on there that needed a 2012 coding manual maybe 2 but for the other questions the description for the code matched up what I needed but I still failed and for the 30000, 50000, and 60000 code range I missed 4 on each of those, and while I'm not sure of the description 100 percent on the 30000 I knew the description matched up for the 50000 and 60000 code ranges. I know there were codes added and deleted between 2011 and 2012 but does the description on the codes change as well and did the ama change that much? I hate to think that I failed because the codes changed that much so any help on this would definately be appreciative

Thanks

Joshua Evans

 

[joshuatng]

CPC Exam

Hi all, after doing some research and comparing new 2012 cpt codes to see what changed by using the 2011 cpt manual I now know what I did wrong. There was a lot of changes that I noticed was different, between the 2012 codes and the 2011 codes.