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You have a CCS date. Hold it. From here: 496 questions with every option explained, three timed 107-question practice exams, a 12-day plan that opens with a 25-question diagnostic. No login, no expiry.
We built this the way an inpatient coding lead trains a new coder, not the way a shelf gets filled. AHIMA gives you four hours for 107 items: 97 scored, 10 pretest, 64 multiple-choice questions and 33 coding scenarios. Coding Knowledge and Skills alone is 40 percent. Documentation and Regulatory Compliance take 20 percent each, Provider Queries and Information Technologies 10 percent each. Your twelve days are cut to those same five domains. Check us against AHIMA's published content outline. We would rather you did.
What's inside
Day 1 opens with a 25-question diagnostic. It shows which of the five domains is thin, and the rest of the plan bends toward it.
Two full days on ICD-10-PCS. How the seven character positions lock together, which root operations get confused with which, and how a body part or approach changes the code.
A day inside inpatient reimbursement. Principal diagnosis selection, CC and MCC capture, present on admission, MS-DRG and IPPS, and the sequencing call that moves a grouping.
496 original questions, every option explained. Each says why the right code wins, and you'll see why the near-miss or reversed sequence loses.
Three practice exams at 107 items, the live exam's own length, weighted across the five domains. Each ends in a scored review that names the pages to reread.
The compliant query and the audit side. When documentation warrants a query, what makes one leading, plus NCCI, RAC and OIG. Printable cards carry the PCS character grid, the record-to-DRG path and the query decision. Maybe the last coding book you bought was a guideline summary with a quiz at the back. Give this one three evenings. If the diagnostic shows you nothing about your inpatient gaps, put it down. An hour is all it cost.
Three readers get the most from it. An outpatient or physician-office coder stepping up to inpatient work. An HIM graduate sitting the CCS as a first hospital credential. A coder whose facility now wants the letters. If PCS root operations are already your day job, start at Day 7.
Day 12 is the long one: whole records, principal diagnosis, sequencing, at once. You will finish it anyway, and you'll find 107 items stop feeling like a marathon. Downloaded once, yours to keep.
— The Passmark Publishing Team
An independent study guide from Passmark Publishing. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the American Health Information Management Association. AHIMA, CCS and Certified Coding Specialist are trademarks of the American Health Information Management Association. For exam preparation only; not medical, coding or legal advice.
We built this the way an inpatient coding lead trains a new coder, not the way a shelf gets filled. AHIMA gives you four hours for 107 items: 97 scored, 10 pretest, 64 multiple-choice questions and 33 coding scenarios. Coding Knowledge and Skills alone is 40 percent. Documentation and Regulatory Compliance take 20 percent each, Provider Queries and Information Technologies 10 percent each. Your twelve days are cut to those same five domains. Check us against AHIMA's published content outline. We would rather you did.
What's inside
Day 1 opens with a 25-question diagnostic. It shows which of the five domains is thin, and the rest of the plan bends toward it.
Two full days on ICD-10-PCS. How the seven character positions lock together, which root operations get confused with which, and how a body part or approach changes the code.
A day inside inpatient reimbursement. Principal diagnosis selection, CC and MCC capture, present on admission, MS-DRG and IPPS, and the sequencing call that moves a grouping.
496 original questions, every option explained. Each says why the right code wins, and you'll see why the near-miss or reversed sequence loses.
Three practice exams at 107 items, the live exam's own length, weighted across the five domains. Each ends in a scored review that names the pages to reread.
The compliant query and the audit side. When documentation warrants a query, what makes one leading, plus NCCI, RAC and OIG. Printable cards carry the PCS character grid, the record-to-DRG path and the query decision. Maybe the last coding book you bought was a guideline summary with a quiz at the back. Give this one three evenings. If the diagnostic shows you nothing about your inpatient gaps, put it down. An hour is all it cost.
Three readers get the most from it. An outpatient or physician-office coder stepping up to inpatient work. An HIM graduate sitting the CCS as a first hospital credential. A coder whose facility now wants the letters. If PCS root operations are already your day job, start at Day 7.
Day 12 is the long one: whole records, principal diagnosis, sequencing, at once. You will finish it anyway, and you'll find 107 items stop feeling like a marathon. Downloaded once, yours to keep.
— The Passmark Publishing Team
An independent study guide from Passmark Publishing. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the American Health Information Management Association. AHIMA, CCS and Certified Coding Specialist are trademarks of the American Health Information Management Association. For exam preparation only; not medical, coding or legal advice.
You have a CCS date. Hold it. From here: 496 questions with every option explained, three timed 107-question practice exams, a 12-day plan that opens with a 25-question diagnostic. No login, no expiry.
We built this the way an inpatient coding lead trains a new coder, not the way a shelf gets f...
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Passmark builds one kind of book: the one that makes your study hours count. We start from a simple conviction — a certification exam is a skills test, not a memory test — so we never hand you a wall of facts to reread. Our method comes from the science of how memory actually holds: you learn by retrieving, not rereading; you revisit on a widening schedule so it sticks; every answer is explained, right and wrong, so you keep the reasoning; and a diagnostic points your hours where they will move your score. We read each exam's current blueprint ourselves, write every question from scratch, and check every number in the book — question counts, domain weights, practice tests — against the finished pages, not the marketing. When an exam changes, our books change with it.
Passmark builds one kind of book: the one that makes your study hours count. We start from a simple conviction — a certification exam is a skills test, not a memory test — so we never hand you a wall of facts to reread. Our method comes from the science of how memory actually holds: you learn by ...
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