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Medical Billing & Coding Study Guide

Learn to Code with Real Examples and Pass the CPC Exam on Your First Try

You don't pass the CPC by memorizing codes. You pass by learning to find them. Have you read an entire chapter and still couldn't code one real case? Does a one-page patient note turn every tiny detail into a trap? You're preparing for a $425 exam that about half of people fail on the first try, and you deserve a guide that actually teaches you how. Here is the truth most medical coding guides won't tell you: the CPC is open-book, but they never show you how to use the book. Instead: walls of text, no real examples, sometimes outdated codes or AI filler. You feel "sooo dumb," when the problem was never you. It was the material. This guide is built the opposite way. It teaches you to actually code, line by line on real cases, with one method you can run on any chart. Written by a coder who passed, with every code current for 2026. Inside, you'll learn how to: Rehearse the real thing with the included online exam simulator: seven full-length timed mocks, 700 questions on a true four-hour clock, scored by section, so exam day feels like your eighth mock, not your first Turn any real patient chart into the right code with the Case-to-Code Method, so you stop guessing and start deciding Work through real ICD-10-CM, CPT, and HCPCS examples, the line-by-line practice other books skip Tame E/M, the beast, and the modifiers that quietly cost everyone points Finish 100 questions in four hours with the 4-Hour Exam-Day Strategy, so time never runs out on you Test yourself on paper with two full-length practice exams in the book, every answer explained, including why the other three choices are wrong Tab your manuals the legal way, and read an honest take on pay, the job, and AI Picture exam day: you open a question, run the method, and the code is simply there. Picture the CPC after your name, a remote coding job, and a real income you earned from home, close to the people who matter.

Genres

Medicine

ISBN

9798905992087

Format

Print / Paperback

Contributor

Megan Carter

Author

Megan Carter, CPC, came to medical coding the same way many of her readers do: as a career-changer who needed steadier ground and a kind of work she could build a future on. She studied at the kitchen table after the day was done, sat the CPC exam with the same nerves everyone brings to it, and learned firsthand the difference between knowing the material and surviving four hours of it. She wrote this book because the resources she found while studying were either dry walls of text with no real examples, or cheerful promises that skipped the hard parts. She wanted the honest version: how the exam actually works, what trips people up, and the exact moves that get you to a passing score, taught with real cases instead of theory. Today she helps other career-changers do what she did, with a plain-spoken, anti-hype approach and a belief that this credential is within reach for anyone willing to learn the method and put in the reps. If this book helped you pass, especially on your first try, she'd love to know. The simplest way to tell her is a short, honest review on Amazon: brightwellprep.com/review/cpc takes you straight to the review page for your country.