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Which course offers Inpatient Med Coding? - mt2coder


Posted: Mar 24, 2011

I am going to start a medical coding course at a community college but they are teaching outpatient insurance coding.  What do I need to do to be able to do inpatient coding in a hospital?  Is there a different test for certification for doing inpatient coding?

inpatient coding - Raine59

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Andrews teaches both inpatient and outpatient coding in their program. I think the CCS is the most accepted certification for inpatient coding as a general rule, whereas the CPC tends to be more for outpatient coding. This is not a hard and fast rule, but just what I've noticed tends to be accepted. There is a lot of overlap between inpatient and outpatient coding. Some of the rules are different but it's not really 2 completely different things.


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