After two years of following a doctor around the office as a medical assistant, Raina Diaz was ready for a change. “I wanted to be part of the back end of the medical field,” says Diaz, 47, of St.

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SALT LAKE CITY, April 12, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- AAPC (www.aapc.com) is collaborating with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to plan and conduct an AAPC-sponsored ICD-10 "Code-A-Thon" ...

Quality medical coders can provide an invaluable service to physician practices, hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers by decreasing denials, speeding up the reimbursement process and ensuring ...

The event filled up within hours of its initial announcement, but the presentations, recording, and transcript will be available for people to view on the CMS website no later than two weeks after the ...

Here are six factors that affect the average salary of a medical coder, based on data from AAPC’s 2010 Salary Survey: Coding Still a Good Bet in Bumpy Seas, written by Robison Wells, MBA, senior ...