CPC · the Certified Professional Coder exam
The book is open. Know where to look.
CPT by section, E/M, anesthesia, modifiers, ICD-10-CM guidelines and HCPCS — taught the way an open-book exam asks: find the rule, apply it, report it right.
See the seventeen areasOne day, everything open, no card.
2,502original questions, counted once
12full-length papers of 100
6lectures
55sections, each with its own check
A patient is admitted with gangrene associated with peripheral vascular disease and diabetes. Which combination/sequencing concept is key?
ICD-10-CM provides E11.52 (type 2 diabetes with diabetic peripheral angiopathy with gangrene), a combination code capturing diabetes, the angiopathy, and gangrene (I.C.4). A separate gangrene code (I96) is not added when the combination code includes gangrene. Coding them separately misses the combination.
Real item · cpc.icd10cm-077 · Diagnostic 1
The real exam, as AAPC sets it
100questions
4 hourson the clock
Open-bookCPT, ICD-10-CM, HCPCS Level II
70 of 100scored items to pass
How you’ll study · AAPC’s seventeen areas
The exam is open-book. So learn where to look.
The CPC is 100 questions in four hours with the code books on the desk. It rewards finding and applying the right guideline quickly — which is what these questions train, area by area.
CPT 10000 · Integumentary6%
CPT 20000 · Musculoskeletal6%
CPT 30000 · Respiratory, Cardiovascular & Lymphatic6%
CPT 40000 · Digestive6%
CPT 50000 · Urinary, Genital & Maternity6%
CPT 60000 · Endocrine, Nervous, Eye & Ear6%
Evaluation & Management6%
Anesthesia4%
Radiology6%
Pathology & Laboratory6%
Medicine6%
Modifiers~7%
ICD-10-CM5%
HCPCS Level II3%
Compliance & Regulatory3%
Anatomy & Medical Terminology8%
Coding Guidelines7%
Plus ten coding cases. AAPC’s published counts cover 90 questions; the last ten are case questions that ask you to read a record and code it. Modifiers are this course’s own area — AAPC tests them inside the CPT sections — so they are marked “~”.
What’s inside
Five things built for the coding desk.
Every plan opens everything. These are the five that matter most for this exam.
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Twelve full-length papers of 100
The real CPC is 100 multiple-choice questions in four hours, open-book. Every paper here is that shape — a Diagnostic, an On-level, a Gauntlet harder than the real exam, and two practice exams — written to test applying the code sets, never memorising them.
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Every wrong answer gets its reason
Why the right code is right, and why each wrong one fails — wrong section, up- or down-coding, the missing modifier, an unbundled pair, a sequencing slip.
A physician documents 130 minutes of critical care on one date for a single patient. How is this reported?
First 74 min = 99291; minutes 75-104 = 99292 x1; minutes 105-134 = 99292 x2; so 130 min = 99291 + 99292 x2. 130 minutes is two full additional 30-minute increments past the first 74 minutes (105-134 min = +2 units). 99291 is reported only once per date per provider. 99292 cannot be reported without 99291, and the first 74 minutes are covered by 99291.
Real item · cpc.em-125 · Diagnostic 1
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Axon Live, with the books open
“Two benign lesions, shaved from the trunk at the same session. Before you open the book — is that one service or two, and what tells the payer they are separate?” It teaches where the rule lives in the book and how to apply it. Fifteen free minutes, once.
04
Six lectures, from terminology to compliance
55 sections — anatomy and terminology, CPT surgery, E/M and anesthesia, radiology, pathology and medicine, ICD-10-CM and HCPCS, modifiers and compliance — each closed by its own knowledge check.
05
Weak Spots, area by area
Your true score in each of the seventeen areas, settled from every answer — then drilled where it is lowest, on a plan that books around your week.
Pricing
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Questions
Before you start
Is the real exam open-book?
Yes. AAPC allows the AMA CPT Professional Edition and your choice of ICD-10-CM and HCPCS Level II code books — and only those. It is 100 questions in four hours, so the skill is finding and applying the right guideline quickly, which is what these questions train.
Are these real exam questions?
No. Every item is original, written to the public content outline and checked blind by a second AI model that never sees the key. Nothing is copied from a published form, and we are not affiliated with any examining board.
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