CPC® + CPB®: Medical Coding and Billing Training Course
Who is CPC + CPB training for?
Why limit yourself to one career path when you can prepare for more? AAPC's CPC + CPB training equips you with skills in both medical coding and billing, preparing you to pursue the broadest range of roles in healthcare revenue cycle management. With expertise in both disciplines, you'll have more career options, greater flexibility, and opportunities to grow across healthcare.
New to healthcare? Build skills in both medical coding and billing to pursue a wider range of career opportunities.
Considering a career change? Prepare for multiple career paths in healthcare with two industry-recognized certifications.
Already working in healthcare? Expand your expertise across coding, billing, and revenue cycle operations to open new doors.
Working in medical billing or coding? Broaden your qualifications with complementary skills that can help you advance your career.
Want more career flexibility? Prepare for opportunities in medical practices, hospitals, health systems, insurance companies, and other healthcare organizations.
When to enroll
Our online CPC + CPB course is perfect for beginners who have no medical billing or medical coding experience and for seasoned professionals who want to certify their expertise with the CPC + CPB credential.
Value
Medical billing and coding are elements of the revenue cycle management process that work hand-in-hand with each other. A dual certification demonstrates competency in both roles — which is an impressive background to bring to any potential employer. Stand out as a certified professional coder and a certified professional biller.
Education and experience requirements
For self-paced and instructor-led courses, you will need to take Fundamentals of Medicine or have equivalent real-world experience with medical terminology, anatomy, and pathophysiology to be exempt.
Course length
Instructor-led: 32 weeks from start date to completion (16 weeks for CPB and 16 weeks for CPC). New courses start throughout the year.
Self-paced: Courses are accessible for 6 months each. Enrollment begins at date of purchase. Monthly course extensions may be purchased through the life of the course.
Continuing education units (CEUs)
If AAPC certified prior to enrollment (excluding CPCO, CIRCC, CPMA, and specialty certifications), you'll receive 80 CEUs once you successfully complete both the CPC and CPB course. One-time use only.
Financial options
Pay in full: Price includes up to $500 pay-in-full discount
Pay over time: Make easy monthly payments over 12, 18, or 24 months
Course curriculum overview
This entry-level medical coding and billing training course combo provides all the training you need to excel as a medical coder and medical biller.
You'll gain expertise across the medical billing and reimbursement cycle — including preauthorization, charge entry, claims transmission, submitting appeals, payment posting, insurance follow-up, and patient follow-up.
Additionally, this course combo brings together foundational coding knowledge, including medical terminology and anatomy. You'll develop a broad skillset that includes reviewing and assigning the correct procedure and diagnosis codes for professional (physician) services.
By the end of your training, you will be ready to differentiate yourself for a medical billing or coding position and earn the CPC + CPB credential.
Medical coding and billing training objectives
Identify the purpose of the CPT®, ICD-10-CM, and HCPCS Level II code books
Understand and apply the official ICD-10-CM coding guidelines
Apply coding conventions when assigning diagnoses and procedure codes
Identify the information in appendices of the CPT® code book
Explain the determination of the levels of E/M services
Code a wide variety of patient services using CPT®, ICD-10-CM, and HCPCS Level II codes
List the major features of HCPCS Level II codes
Provide practical application of coding operative reports and evaluation and management services
List a variety of health insurance models and how they affect medical entities.
Understand the legal regulatory considerations involved in health care reimbursement and collections.
Explain the process of a physician-based insurance claim including obtaining patient data, claim form completion, insurance carrier processing and payment received.
Demonstrate the ability to use the three major coding manuals, CPT®, ICD-10-CM, and HCPCS Level II, and apply medical necessity standards.
Explain the follow up process for A/R in a physician’s office, including the top denials by insurance carrier along with their appeals process.
Learning methods
AAPC understands that students learn in different ways — that's why we allow you to choose a learning style that fits you best. AAPC offers the following learning methods:
Live instructor-led
Live instruction and classroom-paced training
16-week course via 1.5 hour online live sessions per week
Highest exam pass rate
New courses start every week
Self-paced instruction
Flexibility to prepare for the exam on your own time and pace
On-demand coaching — get expert feedback within two business days
Up to 6-month access to course materials
Course bundle includes
In addition to the actual course of interactive online lectures, step-by-step coding processes, and all training needed to pass the exam, you’ll receive:
AAPC membership (a $164 - $314 value: included with new member packages only)
Includes membership to AAPC which will help you plan your career and get discounts on all future classes, webinars, workshops, and materials.Online practice exams
Three 50-question CPC practice exams to gauge your readiness for the CPC certification exam. Three 50-question CPB practice exams to gauge your readiness for the CPB certification exam.CPC + CPB certification exam vouchers ($425 each if purchased separately; included in Self-Paced and Instructor-Led Career Packages.)
The exams evaluate a coder's knowledge, rationales, efficiency, effectiveness, and grants certification upon passing. Includes both the CPC and CPB exams.Codify by AAPC (a $120 value)
Codify is our newest revenue cycle platform to allow subscribers the fastest tool for medical code look-up among multiple additional tools and services.Practicode by AAPC CPC-A Practicum (subscription included in Self-Paced Max and Instructor-Led packages — a $249 value)
Practicode is a coding practice tool that helps to improve coding skills across multiple specialties, allows a new coder to gain coding experience, and helps you remove the apprentice (CPC-A) designation of the CPC credential.
Why train with AAPC?
Any credential you earn through us will be recognized worldwide. Our education is trusted globally, positioning AAPC as the leader in training and certification. We train more people for careers in medical billing and coding than any other institution.
You get to train with the same experts who created the exams. Why study at an institution that bases its curriculum on AAPC’s when you can train directly with us?
Our exam pass rates are the highest in the industry. We provide the most trusted curriculum and top-rated training, resulting in exam pass rates that remain unmatched by other programs.
Start building career connections immediately. We are the only educational institution where you can start building your professional network with hiring managers and future peers on day one.
Additional training resources
Review the study guide and test-taking techniques.
Designed to help you prepare for the exam, our official CPC + CPB Study Guides walk you through a review of anatomy and terminology and covers all the content sections found on the exam. Best of all, they provide testing tips for taking the exams.
AAPC's study guides review each section of the CPC + CPB exam in detail, providing practical examples, sample questions, and test-taking techniques.
Test your knowledge before the exam.
Diagnose your strengths and weaknesses. We highly recommend that you take one of the 50-question online practice exams to help you become familiar with the format and time constraints of the real test. Our practice tests accurately mirror the exam to ensure you are fully prepared on exam day.
Diagnose and prioritize your focus areas.
After you take your first practice exam you will realize not all areas of CPC and CPB curriculum require the same amount of study time. Based on your diagnostic results and practice performance, we’ll recommend lessons and exercises at just the right level. Follow these recommendations to make the most of your practice time.
Sign up for a 1-day exam review.
Whether you are completely new to coding or a seasoned veteran, AAPC offers an eight-hour online exam review that solidifies your preparation.
The review is divided up by domains covered on the exam, allowing students to focus on the areas where they need a bit more help. Each session contains an area of focus on the exam and will provide you with a review of key concepts, test-taking tips and strategies, and a review of the most commonly missed questions.
