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CPC STUDY COURSE · 2026 EDITION

Your course, one lesson at a time

Learn medical terminology, anatomy and professional coding, then apply the rules to complete patient records.

Stage 0 — How CPC works

  1. 01What a professional coder does
  2. 02The CPC credential and your path
  3. 03Understand the 100-question exam
  4. 04Your three core coding books
  5. 05Build your exam workstation

Stage 1 — Medical language and the body

  1. 06Build medical words from their parts
  2. 07Read procedure names and abbreviations
  3. 08Describe location, planes and movement
  4. 09Skin, wounds and tissue layers
  5. 10Bones, joints and muscles
  6. 11Airways, lungs and breathing
  7. 12The heart, vessels, blood and lymph
  8. 13Digestion from mouth to intestine
  9. 14Urinary and reproductive systems
  10. 15Endocrine and nervous systems
  11. 16The eye, ear and sensory pathways
  12. 17Read the clinical story: fundamentals checkpoint

Stage 2 — How coding works

  1. 18Documentation before code selection
  2. 19ICD-10-CM: index to tabular
  3. 20ICD-10-CM conventions and instructions
  4. 21Official guidelines and outpatient sequencing
  5. 22Chapter guidance: infections, neoplasms and chronic disease
  6. 23Chapter guidance: pregnancy, injuries and other encounters
  7. 24HCPCS Level II: supplies, drugs and units
  8. 25CPT architecture and your book workflow

Stage 3 — Modifiers and coding logic

  1. 26Components, bilateral and multiple services
  2. 27Distinct services and separate E/M
  3. 28Repeat, reduced and discontinued services
  4. 29Global care, assistants and postoperative services

Stage 4 — Evaluation and Management

  1. 30Choose the E/M family and patient status
  2. 31MDM: problems addressed
  3. 32MDM: data, risk and the final level
  4. 33Time and care outside the office
  5. 34Preventive, critical care and prolonged services

Stage 5 — Anesthesia

  1. 35Anesthesia services, physical status and roles
  2. 36Anesthesia time, obstetric and pain services

Stage 6 — Surgery systems

  1. 37Skin biopsy, destruction and lesion excision
  2. 38Repair, grafts, flaps, nails and breast
  3. 39Fractures, dislocations, casts and splints
  4. 40Joints, arthroscopy, spine and extremities
  5. 41Airways, lungs, mediastinum and diaphragm
  6. 42Cardiac, vascular, hemic and lymphatic procedures
  7. 43Digestive endoscopy and scope progression
  8. 44Abdominal surgery, liver, biliary and pancreas
  9. 45Urinary and male reproductive procedures
  10. 46Female reproductive surgery and maternity care
  11. 47Endocrine, brain, spine and peripheral nerves
  12. 48Eye, ocular adnexa and ear procedures

Stage 7 — Radiology

  1. 49Diagnostic imaging, contrast and components
  2. 50Guidance, interventional imaging and radiation

Stage 8 — Pathology and laboratory

  1. 51Lab orders, panels and clinical testing
  2. 52Microbiology, transfusion and tissue pathology
  3. 53Molecular tests, drug testing and specialty labs

Stage 9 — Medicine

  1. 54Injections, infusions, hydration and chemotherapy
  2. 55Vaccines, dialysis and diagnostic testing
  3. 56Therapy, behavioral care and other medicine services

Stage 10 — Compliance and reimbursement

  1. 57Medicare, medical necessity and coverage
  2. 58NCCI edits without shortcuts
  3. 59ABNs, place of service and RVUs
  4. 60HIPAA, fraud, abuse and professional judgment
  5. 61Michigan Medicaid: coding versus payer policy

Stage 11 — Charts, capstone and readiness

  1. 62Read a chart from start to finish
  2. 63Complete Coding Day
  3. 64Train for four hours and plan exam day

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