Certified Professional Medical Auditor (CPMA)
Boost your career with the CPMA (Certified Professional Medical Auditor) certificate. Medical audits are an essential part of compliant and cost-effective medical practices. Whether it is RAC (Recovery Audit Contractor) audits, refusal of private salaries or simply security, more and more doctors are planning to have regular audits carried out. The risk of not conforming to documentation and coding is too great. As a CPMA, you can use your proven understanding of coding and documentation guidelines to improve the income cycle of almost any healthcare practice.
Prepare for the CPMA exam
- CPMA Study Guide
- CPMA preparation course (online)
- Practice exam
- CPMA exam
Online Audit Training Course CPMA® Save up to 55%
The CMPA Online Audit Training Course is specially designed to help people with prior coding / billing knowledge prepare for the CMPA exam.
CPMA study guide
The CPMA Study Guide examines each section of the CPMA exam in detail and provides practical examples, sample questions, and testing techniques. If you have exam experience or have passed exam training (like the courses listed above), this study guide makes exam preparation simple.
CPMA Online Practice Exams
These three 50-question online practice exams are the BEST way to measure your CPMA® certification readiness. The content of the online practice exam mimics that of the certification exam itself.
The CPMA exam
- 150 multiple choice questions (supervised)
- 5 hours and 40 minutes to complete the exam
- Open codebook (manuals)
The CPMA exam includes the following elements:
- Medical Record Standards and Documentation Guidelines
- 26 questions
- The medical record
- HIPAA Privacy and Medical Record Information Disclosure
- Covered business
- HIPAA Privacy Policy
- JCAHO Documentation Standards
- Keep records
- Pre-notification
- Legal requirements of the medical record
- Analysis of the operational report
Guidelines for compliance with coding and documentation regulations
- 32 questions
- The compliance plan
- Fraud and abuse
- Civil Fines Act
- Federal False Claims Act
- Strong
- Type of audits
- OIG Bylaws and Work Plan
- National initiative for correct coding
- CMS Guidelines for E / M Documentation
- OIG enforced CIA (corporate integrity agreements)
- Collection audits and other government programs
Coding and reimbursement concepts
- 20 questions
- CPT Coding Concepts
- Change usage
- Diagnostic coding and medical need
- Guidelines for assessment and management documentation
- Coding guidelines versus carrier guidelines
Scope and statistical sampling
- 11 questions
- Scope of the review
- Statistical samples
Abstraction of the review of medical records
- Case of examinations including:
- 52 questions (24 exam cases)
- Assessment and management
- surgery
- physical therapy
- radiology
- psychiatry
- Hematology / oncology
- Infusion services
Category Risk analysis and communication
- 9 questions
- Validation of test results
- Analysis and reporting of test results
- Transmission of examination results
- Corrective action.
Approved Manuals for Use During Examination
- CPT® Books (AMA standard or professional edition ONLY) no other publisher is allowed.
- Your choice of ICD-10-CM.
- Your choice of HCPCS Level II.
