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Local Chapters with Highest Attendance

Look How Our New Chapters Are Performing These are chapters that are new since 2017 or more recently. Many Chapters Have High Attendance Percentages This is the list of 20 chapters with the highest percentages of attendance (as compared with the total number of members assigned to the chapters) at meetings held in January 2020. […]

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How Medical Assistant School Will Give You the Highest Salary

Salary is a significant part of any career decisions, including a medical career. Obviously, there are many other things out there to consider and money is not everything. However, let’s be real – it is very important.

There are several things that factor into medical assistant wages. The top determining factors for medical assistant pay include medical assistant certification. How much education and how much experience you have are also important. Lastly, the industry and area of specialty are vital. This means are you working in a plastic surgeon’s office or in a public health clinic?

So what you can you do to ensure you get a medical assistant job with the highest medical assisting salary? One of the biggest things you can do is go to medical assistant school.

This phrase is a little deceptive, as there are not really schools made just for this industry. However, there are medical assistant programs that will enable you to become certified. Once you are certified then you will have an easier time finding employment and will be more competitive, according to salary surveys.

The certification process offers invaluable training and experience. Just to get your certificate you must have a certain amount of hands on experience. So all of the certification programs include periods of time where you are actually working in the health field.

In this economy, it is so important to do whatever you can to have a competitive edge in the job market. In order to ensure that you are going to make the most money you can in a certain position, you must do all you can to get the most education and experience to put on your resume.

The first thing you have to do is choose which type of certification you want to go for. Then, check out their requirements for the certification. It is important that you make sure the school you enroll in is accredited by the certification institution. Otherwise, you will waste your time and not get the certificate. It is the certification that is valuable, not just taking the classes.

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Highest Paid Coding Specialties

Greetings,

I was wondering if anyone knows what the highest paid coding specialties are? I was informed that Neuropsych coders are the highest paid in general, but would like to know about other specialties.

I already looked at the latest AAPC salary survey and it doesn’t compare the various specialties. It addresses the difference in pay for regions across the US, compares pay regarding types of employers (hospital vs. private payer), compares noncertified vs certified, even compares the different certifications such as CPCO vs. CPMA, etc. but doesn’t go into specialties.

Does anyone know where I can find this information. The last time I saw AAPC address this was back in 2009, if I am not mistaken.

Thanks,

C. Beth White

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Code to the “Highest Severity” for Drug Use, Abuse, and Dependence

When reporting a patient’s drug use, abuse, or dependence, ICD-10-CM guideline 5.C.2 states: Psychoactive Substance Use, Abuse And Dependence When the provider documentation refers to use, abuse and dependence of the same substance (e.g. alcohol, opioid, cannabis, etc.), only one code should be assigned to identify the pattern of use based on the following hierarchy: […]
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