Master the CPT Musculoskeletal & Respiratory Guidelines with AMCI - Week Eleven

Hello, hello, hello AMCI YouTube course

for

selfstudyers. How are

you? I'm Mrs. J, one of the curriculum

developers here at

AMCI. Welcome to week 11. Yes, muscular,

skeletal, and respiratory systems are up

next. This is where we do deep dives

into fracture treatments, wound

explorations, or when we get to

respiratory, we'll be coding scopes,

endoscopies,

etc. All right, before we go any

further, let's say hello to the

team. The dream

team. These are the brilliant minds

behind these lessons. The answers in the

chat and the forensic level instruction

that helps you rise to

certification readiness.

Yes, coders, say hello to the AMCI

instructional team.

And let's not forget our interns. They

have the blue badges. They are amazing

and they are the rising stars who are

walking the same path that you are.

Yes, many of them, as I've said before,

are certified, but many of them want to

become dualcertified. So, they're

looking to get that CCS ex as well. So

they are striving

towards

excellence. Yes. They want to be

accurate, certified, ethical,

forensic. Yeah. And you will too. So

please say hello to them. They are the

heartbeat of

AMCI. Now, I've got a disclaimer.

Yes, if you are not familiar with CPT

coding coding coders, visit our are you

new to medical coding

playlist. So that's the name of the

playlist and we've got two parts, parts

one and two for CPT coding. Go ahead and

check it out before you go any further

because this might be a little deep.

Yes.

And speak about deep. What is going on

at

AMCI? We've got the AMCI Friday night

live sessions on Discord. Yes. Amazing.

We are currently doing Jeopardy hangman.

And right now that wheel of fortune,

that wheel of fortune is fun because

people can play on their own teams. We

can't play with the biggest crowds, but

right now while the crowds are small,

you should get in there. It is fun. Also

in

Discord, our INTP course, that's

interactive medical terminology and

anatomy and physiology. You can attend

every Wednesday, but you've got to be a

member of our YouTube group, right? And

many people have been saying, "Hey, I

can't get in. We hear you. We know that

that link often stops working." We don't

know why. We're in touch with Discord.

We want to know what's going on, but

right now, we've made an effort to

update that Discord link from your

syllabus. So if you go to your syllabus,

click on the discord link. It should be

good. All right. So if you want to know

how to join our discord from your

syllabus, these are the instructions.

Number one, you've got to first become a

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still need assistance, there is a video

for you to watch. The link is on your

syllabus. Let me get rid of

this little prompter. Now, let's move on

and discuss the books for the remainder

of this instruction. Right now, we're in

the second part. We're talking about CPT

coding. And you guessed it, CPT 2025 is

the recommended book. Also, you'll need

your 2025 stepbystep, your MCG and your

Hickpix level two. But for this

discussion, we will be using your CPT

and your MCG

manual. And don't forget, keep this

going. Tell everybody about this free

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want to send a thank you to all of you

that have shared this information. Quite

a few of you are telling people we know

because they're telling us. They're

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people, if we haven't told you before, I

want to let you know that we hear you

and thank you. And for those of you that

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It's not going to always be here if

people aren't using it. So share, share,

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you. Now, let's go ahead and read the

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credentials. And I want to say this

before I move on.

Number one, we're going to review the

muscularkeeletal system. Number two,

respiratory system. Number three, we're

going to give you a glimpse of the 2025

MCG muscular skeletal section. Four, we

will complete practice exercises. And

five, hopefully we'll bring you one step

closer to CPT coding mastery.

First up, the muscular skeletal system

code series, CPT code series

20,000. Now, let's begin with a little

bit of ammp of the muscular skeletal

system. And if you didn't know, the A

and AM is for

anatomy. And

anatomy is pretty much the structure of

the body.

and the P is for physiology. Physiology

speaks to the function of the body. Now,

very briefly, I want to give you some

information about the AM of the

muscularkeeletal

system. Oh, by the way, these images are

from Kenhub. So, if you want to check

them out, they are Kenhub is amazing. Go

to

www.kenhub.com. Now, here are some facts

about bones and muscles. And if you

didn't know, the bones pretty much are

the skeletal system. And there are 206

bones in the body. And there are four

types of bones. You have long bones,

short bones, flat bones, and irregular

bones. And some examples of long bones

are they include the femur, tibia,

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fibula, and also the humorous, radius,

and ulna. So the pretty much the arms

and the

legs. Your short bone examples are your

wrist bones and your ankle bones.

Flatbone examples are your skull bones,

the

scalp or

scapula, your sternum. Let's pretend

like the patient is facing forward, but

this is actually the the back of the

patient and the

ribs.

Also, irregular bones. Some examples are

the

vertebrae, the

sacrum and some facial

bones.

Now when we talk about muscles, there

are more. There are over 600 muscles in

the body and there are three types of

muscles. You have skeletal muscles,

smooth muscles and cardiac muscles.

Skeletal muscle examples include your

biceps, triceps, and

quadriceps. Your smooth muscles include

the intestines. Yeah, that's a muscle.

If it put has to push out the contents

of your stomach, yeah, takes a muscle.

Blood vessels and airways are also