About Words
I’ve always been fascinated by language, and I enjoy learning new terms, both medical and nonmedical. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), several thousand new medical terms are created...
View ArticleNew Year, New Program
The New Year is well underway as we move into February. It’s a great time to be planning for your future. And we have some special offers to give you an incentive to learn coding in our Coding for...
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Advanced Anatomy and Physiology Course Now Available
The coding profession is undergoing rapid changes with the move toward the ICD-10 coding system. As we advance to a more specific method for coding, coders will need a more in-depth understanding of...
View ArticleCoding for Healthcare Professionals Announces Student Scholarships
I’m just back from AHIMA’s Coding Summit, which reinforced my conviction that MTs have a great opportunity facing them in the midst of the changing world of healthcare. MT businesses are scrambling to...
View ArticleSome Take-Aways from Recent ICD-10-CM/PCS Meetings
I just returned from a week of meetings focused on ICD-10-CM/PCS. The first was the HIMSS ICD-10 Forum and the second a two-day workshop on ICD-10-CM/PCS presented by ICD-10 gurus Lynn Kuehn RHIA and...
View ArticleCoding for Healthcare Professionals Offers ICD-10 Coding Course
In anticipation of the US transition to ICD-10 in October 2014, Coding for Healthcare Professionals is expanding its online, self-paced program to 18 months in order to include ICD-10-CM/PCS. The...
View ArticleBlack Friday Special!
Happy Thanksgiving! I hope that each of you are spending some time today with family and friends enjoying the holiday. We truly have so much to be thankful for! It’s that time of year again! Black...
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An MT’s Journey to Coding Certification
Congratulations to CFHP student Areliz Cruz CMT CCA of Lancaster PA, who recently took and passed AHIMA’s CCA (certified coding assistant) exam. Areliz was one of CFHP’s first students, and she has...
View ArticleNew Program Options from Coding for Healthcare Professionals
As mentioned in our previous blog post (“An MT’s Journey to Coding Certification”), Coding for Healthcare Professionals is revising its online self-paced program in response to the US transition to...
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Let’s Make Lemonade
As you have likely heard, Congress has extended the implementation date for ICD-10-CM/PCS by one year to October 1, 2015, despite widespread efforts in the healthcare industry to avoid this extension....
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