Friday, November 12, 2010

Interventional Radiology and Cardiovascular Certification-CIRCC

AAPC (Americal Academy of Professional Coders) is offering a speciality certification for interventional radiology and cardiovascular coders called CIRCC (Certified Interventional Radiology Cardiovascular coder). The first and only certification of its kind, the CIRCC signifies that an individual has achieved a high level of coding education and that his/her proficiency and accuracy in interventional radiology and cardiovascular coding and charging has been validated.
Although experience is not requirement to write the test, AAPC strongly recommends that the candidate at least have two years of experience in IR and cardiovascular coding.
CIRCC Exam covers the following :
1. Diagnostic angiography
2. Non-vascular interventions
3. Percutaneous vascular interventions
4. Diagnostic cardiac catheterization
5. Basic coronary arterial interventions
6. ICD-9
7. Anatomy
8. Terminology

Exam info:
This exam will have 150 multiple choice questions and you will have 5 hours 40 minutes to finish the exam.  If you fail, you will have one more chance to retake the exam. And, it is a open code book exam. You can take CPT and HCPCS level II code books and a set of anatomical charts.

Will post some sample IR reports next..
Resource: AAPC website.

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