Medical Billing and Coding For Dummies by Karen Smiley

Author:Karen Smiley
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781119625469
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2019-11-12T00:00:00+00:00

Getting the most bang for your buck with CEUs

You often need to earn CEUs on your own time (and your own dollar), in which case you want to make sure you’re getting the most benefit for the cost. In the next sections, I offer advice on which activities provide a good cost-to-CEU ratio.

Workshops

Attending a one-day conference or workshop that offers 8 or 10 CEUs can be an economical use of your time, given that you need at minimum of 18 units each year. Attending a conference or workshop is a good idea especially if the meeting is relevant to your current position or to the position you hope to get.

Both the AAPC and AHIMA offer workshops that allow coders to not only earn CEUs but, most importantly, also learn about updates to policies, procedures, and diagnosis codes. Attending these can be costly (check with your employer to see whether it will subsidize your attendance), but the price is often worth it. Compared to online learning or reading articles, attending a workshop gives you the opportunity to ask questions and network with the instructors and other attendees. Medicare also hosts training through a program called Provider Outreach and Education. The goal of this program is to educate providers and their staffs about fundamentals of Medicare, including policies, procedures, and changes to the Medicare program.

Medicare also offers numerous training opportunities: live training through seminars, teleconferences, and webinars; on-demand training through audio and audiovisual presentations including educational materials; and online training through the Medicare Learning Network, a web-based program that targets different provider types. These opportunities are usually free if you sign up in advance.

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