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Steps for this Assignment
Recently, you were sent an email regarding the process of requesting your campaign code (pay code) for
your credentialing exam.
Please retrieve that email from your student email address, you may have to
check in your “junk or spam folder” and answer the following questions.
PART 1:
Welcome letter
Questions
Your Response
Who is the email from and what is their role?
Brett Barett and he is one of the
instructors in the Health Information
Management program, and our point of
contact for the CCA exam
What is the purpose of the email?
When we complete the program and feel
we are ready to take the CCA exam we
contact him and he gives us a code to
register and pay for the exam
Which is your anticipated credentialing exam?
CCA
or the RHIT exam
CCA
If you are taking the CCA Exam, are you required to
submit an official school transcript?
Yes
Who is responsible to ensure you have the correct
coding books for your CCA Exam?
Yes
If you have no prior coding experience in the
workplace, what coding credentialing exam are you
eligible to take?
CCA
PART 2: CCA
Exam Prep
At the end of your Coding Practicum Course, you will be eligible to take the CCA Exam.
Do you know
what you should do?
Explore
AHIMA’s Certification website
and learn the steps you should follow to
prepare and take your credentialing exam and more on to the next level of your career.
Go to:
https://www.ahima.org/certification-careers/certifications-overview/
Answer the following
questions from the AHIMA Certification – CCA overview.
Question
Your Response
What are the 4 types of questions that could be
included in the CCA exam?
Traditional multiple choice
Multiple choice, multiple response
Scenarios
Pre-test questions
Do Pre-test questions count against your exam
score>
No
All AHIMA exams are scored on a scale of 100-400.
300
Question
Your Response
What is a passing score?
Download the Exam Content Outline.
How many
domains will you be tested on in the CCA Exam?
List them.
6 domains:
Clinical Classification Systems
Reimbursement Methodologies
Health Record and Data Content
Compliance
Information Technologies
Confidentiality & Privacy
What are the items listed on the domains?
Tasks we’re expected to know how to do
What is the Allowable Book List?
One ICD-10-CM code book (2023) and
One ICD-10-PCS code book (2023) there
is a list of the approved versions for each
book along with the corresponding ISBN#
Can you take the exam IF your books do not match
the books listed on the Required Code Book list?
No, we will not be able to test and forfeit
our exam fees
PART 3: (10 questions)
Go to the AHIMA website and download the Candidate Guide:
https://www.ahima.org/media/rldfoyjm/candidate-guide-2022.pdf
Answer the following questions from the Candidate Guide:
Question
Your Response
Is the CCA a nationally accepted standard of
achievement, starting what year?
2002
To take the CCA Exam, are you required to submit
official transcripts from the school?
Yes
If the CCA Exam is in Beta Exam Mode, what is the
typical waiting time for you to receive your results?
Up to 24 weeks
Once you complete your application on the AHIMA
site, Pearson Vue will send you the ATT,
Authorization to Test.
What on that document
must you have before you can open an account
with Pearson Vue to schedule your exam?
The ATT letter will have the
authorization number, the eligibility
period and instructions for scheduling
the appointment.
If the name on your exam application, ATT letter
and your identification do not match, will you be
allowed to take your exam?
No
If you have to cancel or reschedule your exam
within 15 business days of the exam date, what is
the cost?
What is the cost if it is less than 15
business days prior to your exam?
Up to 15 business days before the exam
date is no charge
14 business days prior to the exam date
is a $30 charge
Can you request a refund?
If you have less than 14
business days prior to the exam, can you get a
refund?
What is the processing fee for the refund
request?
I can request a refund up to 14 days
prior, with a $75 processing fee. I cannot
request a refund if the exam is less than
14 business days away
If you do not bring the correct code books for your
exam, will you be provided with a refund so you can
reschedule your exam?
What happens to your fee?
No and the fee is forfeited
If you arrive late to the exam, will you be allowed
in?
No, if I arrive to the test center 15
minutes after the scheduled start time
of the appointment I will not be allowed
to test and forfeit the exam fee
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