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How many of you have both CCS and CPC credentials? - Sunny
Posted: Apr 22, 2011
Just wondering how many of you have both CCS and CPC credentials. How many years did you work before you took those tests? Did the credentials help you get a job or did you get the job first?
Credentials - I have both
[ In Reply To ..]CCS and CPC. I got the CCS before I got my first job and I'm sure it helped me get the job. I got my CPC shortly after I got the job.
Where did you get your training, or did you learn on the job? - Curious
[ In Reply To ..]How did you accomplish all of that? It's impressive, but it sounds hard.
Credentials - Before Job
[ In Reply To ..]As mentioned above, I got the CCS before I got my first job, and got the CPC shortly after getting the first job. I completed the Andrews program and then studied a lot before taking the CCS. Yes, the CCS was a very hard exam; CPC was not as difficult, but was challenging enough.
Credentials - sm
[ In Reply To ..]You did it the right way. If I were doing it again, I also would have studied it thoroughly and then gone for both credentials as you did, while it was fresh. I would liked to have had a better coding education to begin with. It wasn't enough to prepare me for the credentials back then and it's probably much harder now than it was back then. It worked out okay for me anyway because I've never really worked as a real coder, but I often wish I had done more with it.
Credentials - Both
[ In Reply To ..]I have both, as well as a few more. I took the CPC before I had started working in coding, but I had worked for a bit before I got around to taking the CCS.
Did the experience help me? No, I think it made things more difficult. I walked out of the test and realized that I had very stupidly miscoded a chunk of several cases because I read the instructions as I would at my facility rather than the way the test intended.
For the most part, you need at least a CPC, but the CCS is a really nice addition to that. It's a very serious credential that communicates good things to coding managers at hospitals. They can go on about wanting experience, but that kind of experience isn't easy to find. Even without experience, they're going to take you seriously if you have a CPC, but they'll look very closely at a highly motivated CCS.
I think most of them are more impressed by someone who achieved a CCS without experience than someone who worked for 10 years before bothering to take the test. Passing the CCS straight out of school just screams that your training was on target and that you have the right stuff.
Which should you try for? I always recommend both, but not all programs cover inpatient well enough for the CCS.
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