Why You Should Attend the RN-Coder Institute

DID YOU KNOW -- ONLY the Certified RN-Coder and Certified RN-Auditor Institutes can properly prepare you for certification in the nation’s ONLY organization for clinical coders: the American Association of Clinical Coders & Auditors. The AACCA was founded and is managed by Certified RN-Coders, Certified Clinical Coders, and Certified MD-Coders. AACCA is the ONLY such organization which is also non-profit, tax-exempt – and is a member in good standing of the National Organization of Competency Assurance. The Certified RN-Coder Institute, which began in 2001, was founded by Joyce L. Thomas, MHA, CPC, CCC – a former nurse, and currently a professional midwife in California. After years of being responsible for medical practices’ “bottom line,” Joyce developed her exclusive accelerated program just for Registered Nurses because she realized that only RNs, physicians, physical therapists, and physician assistants had the ability to learn coding of medical services and procedures, as well as diagnostic coding, easily and quickly. The issue at the time was a critical shortage nationwide of ANY coder which understood the CPT procedure coding developed by the American Medical Association. In August of 2000, Medicare had implemented a brand-new, very sophisticated payment system for all hospital outpatient service reimbursement – and in less than a year, it was obvious that something wasn’t working! The procedure codes were not appearing on the claim forms – and Medicare knew it was not paying the hospitals correctly but could do nothing but watch most of them try to “figure it out.” In the ensuing years, various coding and compliance issues have cropped up where utilization of Certified RN-Coders was key to helping emergency departments, hospital systems, and ambulatory surgery systems develop better operational systems to ensure and all orders and all services were correct, properly documented, then coded in “real time” – up close “where the action is.” Huge health plans started sending their review nurses in for training – and CRN-Cs assisted in settling large arbitration claims against Health Net, Blue Cross of California and PacificCare. Today, Certified RN-Coders are trained by web-casting, tested only by proctored exam, and receive their work@home via the Internet – directly into their own email account. “We’ve come a long way, Baby,” certainly seems an understatement! ONLY the Certified RN-Coder and Certified RN-Auditors Institutes prepare you for the certification(s) which are required for these 21st century positions. “High-tech piecework” is how RN-Coders Work@Home earn exactly how much they want to earn – when and from where they want to earn it! Please check out the following links for more information! http://www.medhunters.com/articles/dearCPNurseAuditorSalary.html http://www.medhunters.com/articles/dearCPNurseAuditor.html