CPC-M^® Certification Study Guide

AAPC's Official CPC-M^® Certification Study Guide is designed to help experienced professional fee coders prepare for the CPC-M exam. The study guide provides an advanced review of professional fee coding concepts, payer guidance, documentation analysis, compliance requirements, reimbursement considerations, and complex code assignment across multiple specialties.

Get the advantage as our experts reinforce your advanced coding knowledge, walking you through key concepts and applied decision-making for E/M coding, surgical coding, modifier use, NCCI edits, medical necessity, payer policy, documentation validation, case analysis, and compliance risk mitigation. The CPC-M^® Certification Study Guide covers the content areas you'll encounter on the CPC-M exam, in addition to providing helpful testing tips for advanced multiple-choice, multiple-select, and fill-in-the-blank medical record coding cases.

Note: This certification exam study guide was developed to help experienced coders and other medical professionals prepare for the Certified Professional Coder–Master exam. It is not an introduction to coding but an advanced review of professional fee coding, documentation, reimbursement, and compliance concepts.

Key Features

• Advanced professional fee coding review with applied payer policies.
• Testing tips for the CPC-M exam
• Questions designed to simulate the CPC-M certification exam
• Chapter review questions geared to test advanced coding concepts and applied decision-making
• Certification-style questions with answers and rationales
• Medical record coding cases that reinforce CPT^®, ICD-10-CM, HCPCS Level II, modifier, payer policy, and documentation validation concepts
• AAPC's CPC-M Online Practice Exam supplements this study guide with additional certification-style questions and is highly recommended.