Certified Professional Medical Auditor CEU — CPMA CEU Certificate [ Ссылка ]
Q: This is a question for the monthly question and answer webinar. I am scheduled to take the CPMA exam in December and wondered how difficult it is to find CEUs to keep the accreditation. Thanks.
A: This is something to consider, it’s very smart of you to be proactive and think about that, but let me tell you it’s not going to be as bad as you think. For one thing, anybody that teaches a specific credential, has a course in that credential is going to offer CEUs in it, at least if they’re a good program. We, in fact, have CEUs that you can use for that, and you bet you we’re going to have a lot more in the near future.
Laureen: You betcha!
Alicia: You betcha! That’s what they say up North.
Now, you can always get CEUs as general CEUs. We have lots of CEUs, we have the Modifier CEU package that Laureen wrote, the E/M CEU package that she wrote, and then we have On-Demand CEUs as well as the CEUs that we all mentioned at the beginning of the course, like, the MTA is 40 CEUs. It wouldn’t be a specialty but it would be a general CEU for sure.
Now, this is what you need to know: Maintaining Certification – Membership is required to be renewed annually and every two years you have to turn in your CEUs. There’s a tracker on the AAPC website for you.
Laureen: And you’re not turning in the physical CEU certificate, you need to hold that in case you’re audited, you’re just basically submitting those index numbers as you go along so they’re kind of in pending mode. And then when you’re ready, to say, “OK, my two years is up. I’m submitting these to satisfy my maintaining my credential.”
Alicia: Right. Mine is due in October, my renewal for the year. I have more CEUs than I need and I can hit the button and submit them now at anytime, these little pop-up tells me that it’s alright to submit your CEUs now. And I have a hard copy of all of my CEUs, which I was trying to see if I have… I keep them in a folder in a little sleeve and I have been audited the very first year that I became certified, I was audited. So, it doesn’t matter if you’re new. There’s no rhyme or reason how they check you.
But this is what you need to have. If you have one certification you’re going to get 36 CEUs every two years. And here’s the specialty so that CPMA 24 must be related to auditing. But look down here: Effective 10/1/2014 a new policy of CEU requirements. I tried to make this bigger, guys, I pulled it from the AAPC website and it didn’t let me make it bigger but I can take you to the AAPC website.
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