🚀 Master CPT Integumentary Coding: Wound Repairs, Excision, & Moh's | AMCI Medical Coding Week 10**

Welcome, welcome, welcome to week 10.

Yes, we are over the hump. Okay, YouTube

coders. This week we will be diving into

CPT integumentary. What is that? Well,

we're going to explore skin, nails,

hair, hair. Yeah, I guess hair and

related procedures from wound repairs,

um, excisions to skin grafts and

biopsies. You will learn how to

accurately apply CPT codes for

integumentary services and you're going

to learn these guidelines. Now, we can't

cover all of them, but we will do our

best to give you the tools to delve into

the guidelines yourself. All right?

Okay, coders. So, let's keep that

momentum going. Let's do this. But not

before we greet our

team. Yes. Say hello to the AMCI dream

team. Yes, Mr. Sandeep. He's our

curriculum developer. Miss Dolly, she's

a lead instructor and editor. Miss

Bianca, she's a lead instructor and

student success manager. And let's not

forget about Miss Meals, she's also a

lead instructor and intern manager here

at AMCI. And they also have other roles,

too. But as it pertains to this YouTube

course, this is what they do. At AMCI,

we have a team that's they're more than

just a group of instructors. We are

dedicated mentors, industry experts, and

passionate educators. And we do the

work. We study just like you. All right,

let's not forget our

interns. Say hello to the AMCI interns.

You know them. They are wearing the blue

badge and they are more than just our

students. A lot of them are already

certified. They are um seek to be

dualcertified. So a lot of them have

their professional certification or

they're very close to it and they are

emerging leaders in the world of medical

coding. Each intern has demonstrated

exceptional dedication, a commitment to

mastering those guidelines, and a

passion for forensic coders coding. And

you know what? They are here for you.

And the best part of it all, they love

it. So, please say hello to the interns.

I know that was long, but I felt they

deserved it. Okay, so we do have a

disclaimer. All right, so if you're not

familiar with CPT coding, you're new at

this, we recommend that you view the

beginners lectures before moving on.

Also, I recommend that you join the I2MC

course, Introduction to Medical Coding,

if you

are a true novice. It's free. You don't

have to pay for anything. Go in there,

get the foundations, then join the

YouTube course. It will be available

after we are finished. So, don't worry.

All right.

So this is the playlist team. Can

someone drop the playlist for this um

introduction to medical coding please?

And thank

you. So what the heck is going on at

ANCI? What are you doing? Well, as it

pertains to you YouTube course students,

it's in the Discord. You know what? I

attended that AMCI Friday Night Live,

that game night last week.

OMG, they played, of course, Jeopardy,

hangman, and then they introduced the

Wheel of Fortune. You know what? Get in

there. Get in there. That was

fun. Also in

Discord, our introduction to IMTAP.

That's interactive medical terminology

and anatomy and physiology. This is fun.

You don't need books. You're going to

learn medical terminology and anatomy in

a fun way. We found that our students

like to play. So, there you go. Play,

play, play. And this is one of our most

popular

classes and it's in Discord. So, you got

to join Discord. All

right. Weeks 9 through 16. These are the

books that you'll need. Your hickpicks

level 2, CPT 2025, your bucks step by

step, and your MCG manual. So, go ahead

and make sure you have them. And today,

we're going to focus on that CPT 2025 as

well as your MCG. You're going to see

clippings. All right.

Now there is a discussion that we need

to bridge and you know a lot of

people not most people are cool with

this course and some people are like

leery like people are telling them and

possibly competitors I think I've seen

it are saying hey don't go to that free

course because they're going to make you

buy

something. Heck no you better not buy

anything. Yes, the MCG is a required

manual. It's required because it's dog

on good. However, note that we show you

if you can't afford it, we show you how

to get the material on your own. Well,

we're pointing out where the guidelines

live. That is how you get the material

on your own. So, you don't even have to

buy the MCG manual. However, there are

practice exercises in there. It is a

useful tool. I wouldn't steer you wrong,

but if you do not get that MCG manual,

you can still take this course. You can

still pass the medical coding

certification. I will show you how and I

will give you as much as I can. So, why

are you doing this AMCI? Why are you

providing this free course? Because we

want to give access to high quality

medical coding education to

everyone. We want to address critical

gaps in medical coding education. Yes,

we see them. We see those

gaps. The competitors are missing some

things. You're not teaching indepth

medical coding instruction. You got to

do that. you do and I'm going to tell

you why we're doing that. Also, we want

to model ethics and excellence.

Coders, I know that there are some

unethical things that happen. Many of

you, we heard, we hear your stories. We

read your stories every single week. We

see them coming through. And I'm going

to show you some of them. And we do know

that, you know, some of you have been

done wrong. You've been charged for

medical coding instruction and they did

not deliver. However, I see some coders

doing some things,

too. Uh, someone

actually

photographed the CPT manual and is

distributing it. You don't do that.

That's unethical. You cannot do that. Do

not reproduce any book and distribute

it. It violates a law. How are you going

to be a medical

coder responsible for making sure that

providers uphold laws? And you'll see

that when you get to CCS because that's,

you know, that's what they do and that's

what you're supposed to do. You cannot

do things like that. So we want to model

ethics and excellence and we assure you

that this course is not a tactic to gain

more students. Absolutely

not. A large just so you know a large

portion of our students come from other

courses after they've paid them. Yes.

So, we generate revenue off of courses

that are not doing the work and not

doing the job.

So, we didn't feel good about that.

After you've paid, then ask you to pay

again. No. So, if anyone

asks, AMCI believes that

selfstudy is best. If you can self-study

and save that money on your own, go

ahead and we are committed to helping

you do

it.

Now, this is what your peers are saying.

We just grabbed these off of our

YouTube. This person came from a billing

and coding program and the coding did

not have

enough dedication. they they only gave

them one hour a week seminar for coding.

So this is common among colleges and

universities. This student says she's in

an online class and she came to YouTube

because she needed help. Why are you

doing that? If you paid for a course,

your course should do everything, right?

Also, a student took a class twice and I

guess she thought she missed something,

but she has affirmed that the AMCI free

YouTube videos provided her with more

information.